How to Use embassy in a Sentence

embassy

noun
  • Protesters marched outside the American embassy.
  • The embassy was moved out of Beirut to Aukar after the bombing.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 5 June 2024
  • The discord has gotten so out of hand, the U.S. embassy in London even felt the need to step in.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Fadi had been in touch with the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem to help get his parents out of Gaza.
    Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 12 May 2024
  • According to El País, the group had shot one embassy guard.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Hundreds of others flocked to their embassies to ask to leave Tunisia.
    Bouazza Ben Bouazza, ajc, 6 Mar. 2023
  • This is not the first foreign embassy project for B.L. Harbert.
    Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 16 Apr. 2023
  • In case of a disaster, local embassies know to alert and look for you.
    Hannah Sampson, Andrea Sachs and Sofia Andrade, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Having such imprimaturs opened doors to embassies and in cities and towns around the world.
    Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Many of the protests were held outside Russian embassies.
    Mary Ilyushina, Robyn Dixon, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Assange still faced British charges for jumping bail, and remained in the embassy.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023
  • The group said the strikes were in response to the burning of a Koran in front of the Turkish embassy in Stockholm earlier this year.
    Jordan Robertson, Fortune, 28 June 2023
  • There were people at the local Russian embassy who could help guide the effort.
    Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Western embassies closed after the first day of fighting.
    Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Egypt and Jordan, of course, already have peace treaties and embassies with Israel.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
  • After all, the brand is based in the spa capital of the world, Budapest where the pair met, while Margaret was chief of staff at the U.S. embassy.
    Felicity Carter, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
  • The embassy in Khartoum declined to say how many Americans were in the country.
    Cora Engelbrecht, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Taiwan’s de facto embassy in the United States wrote in a tweet on Monday.
    Reuters, NBC News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The embassy said in a statement to CBS News that no staff members were injured and the person who set himself on fire was not known to the embassy.
    Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The Saudi embassy did not respond to a request for comment.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Blasi and a group of at least a dozen people were still working out of the embassy and diplomatic residences this week.
    Andreina Itriago Acosta, Bloomberg.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • And the events drew additional support from the French embassy in each country.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 28 June 2024
  • Britain’s embassy in Yangon said Bowman had not yet been released from prison.
    Time, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The embassy received no response to its alert on the Lady R from the South African government, the official said.
    Gabriele Steinhauser and Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Now, the focus is on the Middle East and how Iran will respond to last week’s deadly airstrike on its embassy complex in Syria.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Police at scene where a car crashed through a barrier near the Israeli embassy in Toyko today.
    NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • An embassy spokesperson said one embassy guard was injured in the attack.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
  • Some embassies gave people a few hours to pick up passports before shredding them.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
  • An embassy’s entertainment budget, therefore, is intended to be used to the country’s advantage, not the staff’s amusement.
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Vietnam protested the incident in discussions with China’s Hanoi embassy.
    Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen and Philip J. Heijmans / Bloomberg, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024

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