foreign service
Example Sentences
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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
At one point in February, Marocco tried ordering the immediate return of foreign service officers stationed abroad.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
Cynthia Iglesias Guven worked at the Agriculture Department since 1998, living around the world as a foreign service officer and eventually taking a senior job in Washington.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2025
"I see foreign service officers that have spent their entire lives serving - a large part of it overseas - and the sacrifices they made," they said.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025
My aunt made great outcry against my going soldiering in foreign service.
From The MS. in a Red Box by John Arthur Hamilton
