foreign service

Example Sentences

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After graduation, he opted for Wall Street rather than the foreign service, journalism, or computer science.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Still, when their husbands die, ostensibly in a plane crash, Bea and Twila are grief-stricken — they have lost not only their husbands but their careers as foreign service wives.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2026

In a statement, the Venezuelan government did not comment on Machado's prize, saying that the closure was part of a restructuring of its foreign service.

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2025

And then they tell the career civil servants and foreign service officers and military people, “This is what we want to get at the negotiating table. How do we do that?”

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2025

Vaughan saw that the idea had taken possession of the other's mind, and, aware that he had distinguished himself more than once on foreign service, he wondered.

From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.