How to Use diplomatic in a Sentence

diplomatic

adjective
  • Negotiators are working to restore full diplomatic relations.
  • Outside of the diplomatic sphere, what do people who watch the show say to you about it?
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The unrest took a toll on Macron’s diplomatic standing.
    — Cara Anna, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
  • Held a diplomatic post in Pakistan when her, her car was sprayed with bullets on her way to work.
    — cleveland, 22 Dec. 2022
  • And the formal end of the court case could be the opening both sides need to forge a diplomatic resolution, too.
    — Eric Tucker, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2022
  • And the formal end of the court case could be the opening both sides need to forge a diplomatic resolution, too.
    — Eric Tucker, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Is there a – in the end, is there a diplomatic solution that is still possible?
    — ABC News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Americans want the fighting to end and call for diplomatic channels to take hold.
    — Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Google wants the government to push back on these efforts at the diplomatic level.
    — Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The prospect of such a diplomatic endgame, amid the continuing war in Gaza, remains distant.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2024
  • In the early months of the war, both Paris and Berlin held out hope of providing some kind of diplomatic exit ramp for Mr. Putin that might bring the fighting to a halt.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Does anyone think the response would be confined to some grandiose diplomatic protest?
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2024
  • Horner was more diplomatic, believing that one race was not enough of a sample to make a call on his future.
    — Luke Smith, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • There is a diplomatic angle to this announcement as well, of course.
    — Frey Lindsay, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The cost of capturing Goma — both in human lives and diplomatic blowback — was thought to be too high.
    — Emmet Livingstone, The Dial, 20 Mar. 2025
  • On June 27 of that year, diplomatic tensions in Europe were at their lowest level in years.
    — Ed Lotterman, Idaho Statesman, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Arab and American envoys have voiced hopes for their diplomatic push to reach a cease-fire-for-hostage-release deal.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Back in 2019, Trump’s call caused a brief diplomatic tiff with Denmark, under whose sovereignty the vast island falls.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • And yet such an example comes not from a Biblical episode but from a diplomatic one.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Along with handling the pope’s recovery, the Vance visit is a diplomatic tightrope act for the Vatican.
    — Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Now, the Taliban have adopted the former diplomatic enclave as their own.
    — Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Almost all diplomatic missions in Sudan were evacuated in the first weeks of the war.
    — Samy Magdy, ajc, 17 June 2023
  • Others in the diplomatic community said the use of force is a real option.
    — Sam Mednick, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Aug. 2023
  • One source told the Guardian that diplomatic efforts are being made to urge Turkmenistan to cut its methane emissions.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 May 2023
  • Amid the talk of arms shipments, diplomatic efforts to seek an end to the fighting also continued.
    — Jesica Fisch and Jon Gambrell, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The trip set the foundation for diplomatic ties between the two countries seven years later.
    — Megan Ditrolio, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Meanwhile, there’s a diplomatic scramble to avert full-scale war between Israel and Lebanon.
    — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Since then, the two countries have ramped up their economic, trade and diplomatic relations – including in the wake of Putin’s war in Ukraine.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Grieco, of the Stimson Center, applauds the diplomatic efforts but is critical about Trump's approach.
    — Greg Myre, NPR, 1 May 2025
  • The erosion of traditional alliances and the volatility of U.S. messaging create diplomatic space for Beijing to present itself as a more stable economic partner.
    — Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025

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