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
  • That is a little more than two blocks from the embassy on M Street.
    — Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • The pope was seen leaving the embassy building seated in the front seat of a small, white car.
    — Phoebe Natanson, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • The letter was delivered via the embassy in Buenos Aires.
    — Eléonore Hughes and David Biller, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The six Americans who went on the court that night had been alerted around midnight by the embassy.
    — al, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The Chinese embassy said they were sent to Xinjiang on a chartered plane.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • That same night in Riga, Latvia, a choir was seen singing the Ukraine national anthem near the Russian embassy there.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Meanwhile, Keyes and the Paulsons joined the half-dozen remaining members of the Republic holed up at the embassy.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Cherelle Griner said that her wife called nearly a dozen times on June 18, but never got through because the phone line at the embassy was not staffed.
    — CBS News, 25 June 2022
  • In August, she was contacted by an FBI agent claiming to work for the embassy.
    — Amethyst Tate, Peoplemag, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Taiwan’s de facto embassy in the United States wrote in a tweet on Monday.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The embassy has been run by a series of interim leaders since then.
    — Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY, 10 May 2022
  • The siege has effectively turned the embassy into a prison.
    — David Smolansky, National Review, 12 Dec. 2024
  • All embassy personnel there have been told to cancel all movements, according to the warning posted on the embassy's website.
    — Kiki Intarasuwan, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2025

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