DIPLOMAT in a Sentence

Learn DIPLOMAT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
71 example sentences for DIPLOMAT, such as:
1. I am an old and weary diplomat.
2. and there she paused diplomatically.
3. He is also a diplomat, but senior to me.
4. For HIM I am reserving a diplomatic post.
5. So his diplomatic hints remained fruitless.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DIPLOMAT
diplomat
 n.  a person who deals tactfully with others
 n.  an official engaged in international negotiations
Classic Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  But I know I am no use anywhere except in the army; I am not a diplomat or a government clerk.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
2  After washing and dressing, Prince Andrew came into the diplomat's luxurious study and sat down to the dinner prepared for him.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
3  The large group, in which were Prince Vasili and the generals, had the benefit of the diplomat.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
4  She saw a man who looked like a European diplomat, in a loose top-coat and a Homburg hat.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  His decent gray suit, made by Nat Hicks of Gopher Prairie, might have been of sheet iron; it had no distinction of cut, no easy grace like the diplomat's Burberry.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  But Natalia, too, had hardly made her appearance in the world when she married the diplomat Lvov.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
7  I am an old and weary diplomat.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
8  and there she paused diplomatically.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
9  Arkady talked in an undertone to Katya, and diplomatically attended to the princess's wants.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  For HIM I am reserving a diplomatic post.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
11  So his diplomatic hints remained fruitless.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
12  Prince Andrew stayed at Brunn with Bilibin, a Russian acquaintance of his in the diplomatic service.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
13  Just as Prince Andrew was a young man who gave promise of rising high in the military profession, so to an even greater extent Bilibin gave promise of rising in his diplomatic career.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
14  What the diplomatic matter might be he did not care, but it gave him great pleasure to prepare a circular, memorandum, or report, skillfully, pointedly, and elegantly.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
15  I confess I do not understand: perhaps there are diplomatic subtleties here beyond my feeble intelligence, but I can't make it out.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  The diplomat solved the international problem by negotiating.
2  One Turkish diplomat told the BBC that that was tantamount to the EU saying that it wanted to remain an exclusively Christian club.
3  A letter of credence is a letter sent by one head of state to another formally accrediting a named individual, usually but not always a diplomat.
4  A diplomat at the New Zealand High Commission here, said the ability of the population of Tikopia to withstand Cyclone Zoe was the result of years of experience and resilience built up over generations.
5  He had a distinguished career as a diplomat.
6  Mr Keyes, a former radio talk-show host and Reagan administration diplomat, is the most eloquent of the Republican candidates.
7  He is also a diplomat, but senior to me.
8  The son of a diplomat, he has spent much of his life globe-trotting.
9  Schroeder said diplomatically that they would work on other issues around global warming, such as encouraging renewable resources.
10  The Americans recognise that the UN can be the channel for greater diplomatic activity.
11  Clinton was praised on all sides for his warm manner and diplomatic approach.
12  Tomorrow's meeting between the two leaders is expected to break a diplomatic stalemate that has lasted for ten years.
13  The British government retaliated by breaking off diplomatic relations.
14  He was a man of forceful character, with considerable insight and diplomatic skills.
15  He sees the proposal as more of a diplomatic gambit than a serious defense proposal.