Below you will find example sentences with "foreign minister". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Foreign Minister in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: minister
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 38
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 31.5 words

Words in this phrase

foreign minister

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • foreign can mean: Located outside a country or place, especially one's own. Common word
  • minister can mean: A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

and german foreign minister annalena baerbock 1× and iceland foreign minister bjarni benediktsson 1× and japanese foreign minister yoko kamikawa 1× and russian foreign minister sergey lavrov 1× and urged foreign minister george katrougalos 1× blinken french foreign minister catherine colonna 1× china s foreign minister qin gang 1× chinese foreign minister wang yi 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

and i spoke 1× at the earlier 1× china s foreign 1× chinese foreign minister 1× european union foreign 1× experts don t 1×

Common sentence endings:

a direct position 1× affairs of iran 1× ali bagheri kani 1× all the detainees 1× attend the meeting 1× attended the meeting 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

meeting 7× affairs 7× prime 6× secretary 5× president 4× deputy 4× china 4× chinese 3× wang 3× ministers 3× qin 3× gang 3×

Related phrases

prime minister minister benjamin foreign affairs chief minister minister boris foreign policy defence minister minister justin finance minister foreign aid

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around minister:

prime minister 20× chief minister 20× finance minister 20× affairs minister 16× home minister 15× health minister 13×

Just before it in the phrase index:

foreign interference foreign exchange foreign entities foreign currency foreign aid foreign affairs

Just after it in the phrase index:

foreign ministers foreign ministry foreign policy foreign relations foreign secretary forensic examination

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

foreign affairs foreign policy foreign aid foreign relations foreign exchange foreign interference

Same ending:

prime minister chief minister defence minister finance minister defense minister interior minister

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "foreign minister" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 31.5 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and german foreign minister annalena baerbock, and iceland foreign minister bjarni benediktsson, meeting, affairs and prime stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with prime minister, minister benjamin, foreign affairs, prime minister, chief minister and finance minister, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with foreign minister

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

In a meeting in July with Vatican Foreign Minister Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen condemned violence against Christians. (21 words)

New Democracy shadow Foreign Minister George Koumoutsakos accused the former minister of irresponsibility and urged Foreign Minister George Katrougalos to take a direct position. (24 words)

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Defence Minister Pervez Khattak, Federal Minister for Defence Production Zubaida Jalal and Finance Minister Asad Umar will also attend the meeting. (26 words)

Longer example sentences

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, Marko Djuric held a telephone converstation with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Seyyed Abbas Araghchi on Friday to felicitate him on his his election as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran. (40 words)

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, left, and Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba speak with the media as they arrive for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (40 words)

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin, center, and Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa pose for a photo prior to the trilateral foreign ministers' meeting in Busan, South Korea, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. (38 words)

Example sentences (20)

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin, center, and Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa pose for a photo prior to the trilateral foreign ministers' meeting in Busan, South Korea, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, Marko Djuric held a telephone converstation with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Seyyed Abbas Araghchi on Friday to felicitate him on his his election as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran.

Key members of the previous cabinet, such as Home Minister Amit Shah, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Roads and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, and Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, retained their portfolios.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, Germany’s Annalena Baerbock and British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly also attended the meeting.

And I spoke this morning to Ayman Safadi, the foreign minister in Jordan, I spoke to Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry yesterday, and I spoke to the Palestinian prime minister yesterday also.

Other leaders he met were Azerbaijani President İlham Aliyev, Montenegro President Jakov Milatovic and Foreign Minister Filip İvanovic, Kosovo deputy Prime Minister Donika Gervella-Schwarz and Iceland Foreign Minister Bjarni Benediktsson.

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French foreign minister Stephane Sejourne and German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock joined a growing chorus of western leaders urging against escalation.

Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China Wang Yi, during his visit, is scheduled to hold talks with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and Foreign Affairs Minister Dinesh Gunawardena and other high officials.

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Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah today contacted Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Prak Sokhonn, who is also foreign and international cooperation minister, to request for the release of all the detainees.

New Democracy shadow Foreign Minister George Koumoutsakos accused the former minister of irresponsibility and urged Foreign Minister George Katrougalos to take a direct position.

The RIC meet, which held in China, was attended by India External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

The North Korean foreign minister last Friday with Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh, in a visit which that Pyongyang may be interested in learning from Hanoi’s economic development model.

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Defence Minister Pervez Khattak, Federal Minister for Defence Production Zubaida Jalal and Finance Minister Asad Umar will also attend the meeting.

China's foreign minister Qin Gang will attend the G20 foreign ministers' meeting on March 2 in Delhi, the foreign ministry said at a regular news briefing on Tuesday.

The foreign secretary was in Tehran to co-chair a meeting of India-Iran Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) along with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Ali Bagheri Kani.

According to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), the Indian foreign minister is set to meet with Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo to discuss the advancement of trade and tourism between the two countries.

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, left, and Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba speak with the media as they arrive for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024.

Experts don’t expect the new foreign ministry leadership to affect policy decisions significantly, as Ukrainian foreign policy is shaped by the president, with the foreign minister mostly responsible for implementation.

At the earlier G-20 conference, the foreign minister of China, Qin Gang, joined the foreign minister of Russia, Sergey Lavrov, in playing the role of spoiler.

In a meeting in July with Vatican Foreign Minister Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen condemned violence against Christians.

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