How to Use bureaucrat in a Sentence

bureaucrat

noun

• Your book is largely about this tension in which bureaucrats operate.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 20 June 2018
• Sporting bureaucrats like their politicians to be – how can this be put kindly? – doers rather than talkers.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 13 June 2018
• Witnesses are deposited in a drab waiting room where doors are secured with electronic locks and bureaucrats are buzzing in and out.
  — Evan Perez, CNN, 17 May 2018
• Vought said that independent agencies and unelected bureaucrats and experts wield far too much power while the traditional legislative process is a sham.
  — Molly Redden, ProPublica, 28 Oct. 2024
• Taliban bureaucrats collect taxes and electric bills, and their judges hear civil and criminal cases — some traveling by motorbike between hearings.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 22 June 2018
• The bureaucrat and the former head of the school have been charged with bribery.
  — Mari Yamaguchi, The Seattle Times, 7 Nov. 2018
• Even the bureaucrats at NASA have grand plans for the future.
  — Nicola Twilley, Wired, 11 Feb. 2020
• Not be run by a bunch of bureaucrats based in Brussels.
  — Fox News, 12 July 2018
• The career bureaucrat’s tool of choice has become the leak.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 10 June 2021
• Now, the two long term time bureaucrats were once referred to as brothers and arms.
  — Fox News, 31 July 2018
• Trump’s close aides have long seen the ranks of bureaucrats as standing in the way of the President’s efforts.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 13 Feb. 2020
• The hard-Brexit crowd, who long to tell the bureaucrats of Brussels to get stuffed, admire Mr Trump’s no-nonsense approach to the rest of the world.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2018
• Again and again, the red tape of bureaucrats interferes in the simple pleasures of pasture and open sky.
  — Eliot Schrefer, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2019
• Washington is far from the bureaucrat-type of chief who sits in his office.
  — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2022
• His long tenure as a healthcare bureaucrat should come to an end.
  — Andrew Mark Miller, Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2020
• Caught in the mix are the teachers and bus drivers, bureaucrats and police officers who make up the spine of the nation’s day-to-day life.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 23 Apr. 2020
• Here’s to bureaucrats, who always get the grief, and never the credit, who will work long, hard hours through this crisis.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 17 Mar. 2020
• About 900 people were injured in the accident, P.K. Jena, the top bureaucrat in the eastern state of Odisha, said in a tweet.
  — Ashok Sharma, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
• At least the federal bureaucrats’ boss has to face the voters every four years.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
• Ethanol and corn industry groups said language in the rule leaves too much at the whim of federal bureaucrats and could cause ethanol use to fall short.
  — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
• Here, Hamm plays a no-nonsense bureaucrat in this satire of corporate mores.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 8 June 2022
• Yao, then 24, had been asked to address a large, diverse group of NBA players and Chinese bureaucrats.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 27 June 2019
• Nobody likes to be told what to do, especially by the bureaucrat class.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 2 Dec. 2021
• Townspeople, soldiers, and bureaucrats alike all wear the split-toe shoe.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2024
• But is this to become something for bureaucrats to hide behind?
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 12 Jan. 2024
• And the bureaucrat on whose desk that application landed took one look at it, squinted, and said . . .
  — Amy Nicholson, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2022
• Haney said the saga of the Noe Valley toilet should be a lesson for the city’s political leaders and bureaucrats.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2023
• Brandon Wales, a career bureaucrat and third in line behind Krebs, is now leading the agency, the people said.
  — Alyza Sebenius, Bloomberg.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• The push will also require a lot more state and federal bureaucrats.
  — Time, 2 Aug. 2023
• Miss Argentina works as a bureaucrat — which is a Virgo’s dream.
  — Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024