Examples from literature

• At a foreign court as an ambassador his dinners, of which the diplomatic corps still spoke with emotion, had upheld the dignity of ninety million Americans. 
• He had been appointed to the diplomatic corps, and we were to sail for England within a month! 
• The Acting Secretary of State will communicate this sad intelligence to the diplomatic corps near this Government and, through our ministers abroad, to foreign governments. 
• The diplomatic corps in the time of the Empire was not brilliant. 
• The whole diplomatic corps moves from an anteroom into an apartment in which the prince of Wales awaits them.