How to Use consul in a Sentence

consul

noun
  • Pádraig Manning is the vice consul.
    — Brian Cahalane, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Caligula’s proposal to make his horse a consul comes up, too.
    — Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Conrad Mohr was the German consul in the city, and a friend of the kaiser.
    — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Djukic lost his post in 2018 after about four years as consul.
    — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Her mother served as the honorary consul of Panama in Guyana.
    — Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Kafie had served as honorary consul for Jordan in Honduras for more than three decades.
    — Will Fitzgibbon, ProPublica, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Reuters fell for a fake news story about the firing of a Saudi general consul.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2018
  • Two years ago, when Dondisch became consul, about 100 people came to the office each day.
    — Christine Willmsen, The Seattle Times, 25 June 2018
  • But what worries me a little bit more is that some of the professionals at embassies and consuls are not being told to come home.
    — CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Germany and Austria announced the dismissal of one consul in Brazil.
    — ProPublica, 14 Nov. 2022
  • To his dismay, his first posting in the Foreign Service was as a vice consul in Saigon.
    — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2020
  • As the consul general in Los Angeles, what’s your role in dealing with these changes?
    — Grace Wyler, Orange County Register, 3 Mar. 2017
  • For Napoleon, then France’s first consul, 1802 was a critical year.
    — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2025
  • The vice consul didn’t explain why there was no check by the line on the form letter indicating that the review remained under way.
    — Jess Bravin, WSJ, 26 May 2018
  • The consul quickly spirited them out of New York aboard steamships bound for England.
    — John Harris, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2021
  • It was sponsored by the honorary consul of the Republic of Senegal.
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The honorary consul, Valdis Tilgalis, received a fine, records show.
    — Will Fitzgibbon, ProPublica, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Marilyn Monroe dashes off a thank-you note to the German consul for a gift of champagne.
    — Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The band said Sunday the Australian consul who came to see it in detention was not allowed to see the members.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • After running a campaign along these lines, Marcus won the race for consul, gaining the most votes of any candidate.
    — Quintus Tullius Cicero, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2012
  • Video games are not just the latest shooter or combat titles released for gaming consuls and PCs.
    — Andrew McGowan, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
  • George Ayoub, a Glendale dentist who is also honorary consul of Lebanon, lost a close friend in the blast.
    — Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2020
  • When Pierce took office, Hawthorne was given a posting as consul to Liverpool.
    — John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026
  • The mansion was the residence of the French consul in Chicago in the 1960s.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
  • As the Napoleonic Wars raged across Europe, the French consul had become a conqueror, hungry for more lands.
    — National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2019
  • The two consuls whom Sulla left in command of Rome clashed, and the Senate declared one of them a public enemy.
    — Scott Spillman, New Republic, 30 Aug. 2017
  • In 1883 she was sold to the Italian consul in Khartoum who treated her humanely.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Will be rendered speechless by a missing button on the blouse of the wife of the Swiss consul, and the way the wind brushed back Agafya’s hair to show her collarbone.
    — Daniel Mason, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
  • One grandfather worked for British Petroleum, and the other was pro-consul at the British embassy.
    — Marcia Desanctis, Town & Country, 14 Oct. 2016
  • Sam Shichijo, the honorary consul of Japan in Dallas, said his wife noted that after the shooting, bystanders in the crowd stood still.
    — James Bikales, Washington Post, 9 July 2022

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