How to Use bureaucracy in a Sentence

bureaucracy

noun

• She was fed up with all the red tape and bureaucracy.
• Both candidates pledge to simplify the state's bloated bureaucracy.
• And the sluggishness of these agencies and their bureaucracy.
  — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 14 June 2022
• There’s likely a fear that all these policies could lead to a feeling that there’s too much bureaucracy in the workplace and too many distractions.
  — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 3 June 2022
• Vance, too, has raised the possibility of doing away with the federal bureaucracy.
  — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 22 Nov. 2024
• During the pandemic, many of the Native writers had tried to acquire our land—home site leases on our tribal lands—and had dealt with this kind of bureaucracy.
  — Kristin Scharkey, Sunset Magazine, 30 May 2022
• This is a parochial political world, overshadowed by the federal bureaucracy.
  — Cuneyt Dil, Axios, 25 Nov. 2024
• Letitia Wright plays a young Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Ireland who’s caught in a web of bureaucracy.
  — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 8 June 2022
• The report noted that efforts to address inequities across departments were being hobbled by local government bureaucracy.
  — Shwanika Narayan, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 June 2022
• Parts of the bureaucracy seized on a line in the report, which two people inside the agency described as an incidental finding of the assessment, that said that smoke would travel farther through the train in case of a fire.
  — Nolan Hicks, Curbed, 21 Nov. 2024
• Once the bureaucracy was out of the way, there were still the logistics on the ground.
  — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
• But in the last year, I've been pleased with the bureaucracy finding a way.
  — CBS News, 26 Feb. 2020
• My case, this time, is lost in the labyrinth of bureaucracy in Ankara.
  — Nick Hilden, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2022
• Just more cash sucked in by the black hole of bureaucracy.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 29 June 2018
• To shout through the bureaucracy and the closed-door meetings.
  — Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2021
• The result is that their work gets mired in the bureaucracy.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
• Can't find a place to lock your bike? Rack it up to bureaucracy.
  — John Greenfield, Chicago Reader, 14 May 2018
• That request will take weeks, if not months, to work its way through the bureaucracy.
  — James Barron, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• That money could take longer to wind its way through the bureaucracy.
  — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2021
• The good news for the drug-war bureaucracy is that its jobs program is secure.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2020
• For decades, the company had been known for its pass-the-buck bureaucracy.
  — Rick Tetzeli, Fortune, 23 May 2018
• Others don’t want to deal with the bureaucracy, forms, and delays in the appeals process.
  — Richard Eisenberg, Fortune Well, 24 Apr. 2023
• Muslims and Buddhists served side by side in the royal court and the bureaucracy.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
• The bureaucracy required to claim the title is part of what makes the record so difficult to obtain.
  — Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 1 Aug. 2020
• So, choose a scent that pairs perfectly with the lack of screentime, bureaucracy, and stress.
  — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 12 Nov. 2022
• The bill does not call for expanding the state bureaucracy.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2024
• And the paperwork, and all of the bureaucracy to make that happen is very cumbersome, takes a few hours of your time.
  — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 31 July 2022
• Trump’s allies felt there were too many layers of bureaucracy and the large staff posed a heightened risk of leaks.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 28 Feb. 2020
• Musk was likely next on the list, the InfoWars host warned, since the tycoon had the government bureaucracy scared.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
• George: There would be no need to create some huge new bureaucracy.
  — Zachary Evans, National Review, 17 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024