How to Use bureau in a Sentence

bureau

noun
  • The book is on top of my bureau.
  • Three of the four were convicted of drug and firearms crimes, according to the bureau.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 18 June 2022
  • At one point, Jensen said, the police bureau deployed a series of overnight missions to attempt to catch burglars in the act.
    oregonlive, 19 June 2022
  • The fire was extinguished 30 minutes later by dam workers and the Hoover fire brigade, the bureau said.
    Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 19 July 2022
  • The developer might report your default to a credit bureau, but probably not.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 18 June 2022
  • The figures were based on data compiled by Italian statistics bureau Istat.
    Sofia Celeste, WWD, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Under bureau policy, nurses are required to record video of their medical assessments of prisoners in restraints.
    Christie Thompson, NPR, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The insider adds that the three other couples at the bureau didn't bother Affleck, 49, and Lopez, 52.
    Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 18 July 2022
  • Subprime borrowers — those with weak credit scores — are increasingly falling behind on payments on car loans in particular, credit bureau data show.
    New York Times, 17 June 2022
  • The person who died was in the bus stop, the police bureau said.
    oregonlive, 15 July 2023
  • At the time, the bureau said no one has been arrested or charged in the case.
    Margaret Stafford, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
  • That’s not mentioning, of course, North Africa and the Cairo bureau.
    Terence McGinley, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The travel, the teams, the bureaus around the world for newspapers and broadcasters.
    Jane Ferguson, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • Social media is partly to blame for the rise in Hyundai and Kia thefts, the bureau said.
    Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 10 May 2024
  • The next announcement from the bureau is scheduled for March 12.
    USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2024
  • IndyStar has asked the union for comment about the new bureau.
    Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Feb. 2024
  • As assistant director of the bureau, Hoover had a front-row seat to the whole pageant.
    Time, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The bureau manages more than 245 million acres of public lands, mainly in the West.
    Matthew Daly, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The channel’s bureau chief in Gaza, Wael Dahdouh, was injured in the same attack.
    Josef Federman, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Request a free copy of your credit report from the three bureaus.
    Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Heading the bureau is the chief fire marshal, Dan Flynn.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Najim Rahim is a reporter in the Kabul, Afghanistan, bureau.
    Safiullah Padshah, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The speaker's bureau is named for Trudy and Werner Coppel.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The charging letter gives the company 30 days to respond to the bureau’s claims.
    Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The house was mostly empty, for now a bachelor pad with the bed, a bureau, and pizzas in the freezer.
    Carol Rosenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The woman who owned the dogs was injured and later taken to the hospital for treatment, the bureau said.
    Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Sam Hoffman, movie critic and Chicopee bureau chief, was more welcoming to the younger crowd.
    Daniel Golden, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Lekeshia Blue was a lieutenant in the public integrity bureau at that time.
    Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Gershkovich is based in the Wall Street Journal's Moscow bureau.
    Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Rulli has been based in ABC's London bureau since 2019.
    Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 23 Dec. 2022

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