How to Use bureaucratic in a Sentence

bureaucratic

adjective

• And to, of course, keep them snarled in bureaucratic red tape.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 7 Aug. 2022
• And yet the heavy hand of the bureaucratic status quo had to make its presence known.
  — Deborah Padgett, CNN, 11 Apr. 2022
• This means for every $1 spent on building, $0.40 is lost to the bureaucratic process.
  — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2024
• But if the same old bureaucratic hurdles stand in the way of access to those programs, no one wins.
  — Andrew Heath, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
• In short, bureaucratic hurdles got in the way, though there’s hope that at least some of the chargers will go online next year.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
• Shoigu, more of a behind-the-scenes bureaucratic player than a public brawler like Prigozhin, came up with a plan to put Prigozhin in his place.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 June 2023
• Even then, the process took about 15 years of bureaucratic wrangling and court appeals.
  — Laura Wagner, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
• But for the LooksRare duo, that’s bureaucratic Web2 stuff.
  — Jessica Klein, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
• But any crimes involved are about bureaucratic sloth, and how some of the women are treated.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023
• Seth knows bureaucratic union rules and gory details about vampires but can’t shoot a gun.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 9 Aug. 2022
• Both red states and blue states are accused in this bureaucratic nightmare.
  — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
• While the bureaucratic hurdles can be substantial, many migrants do make it through the process.
  — Anthony Izaguirre, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2023
• In this bureaucratic city, that counts as a happy ending.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2023
• One of the reasons for that was because of the bureaucratic process that delays everything.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
• But in bureaucratic or short-staffed environments, even six months to a year of notice may not be long enough.
  — Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
• Who would sit through days of bureaucratic meetings just to observe?
  — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 10 May 2024
• Witnesses said the long delays were caused by bureaucratic hurdles on both sides of the border.
  — Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
• Don’t test bureaucratic matters; just deal with them and press forward.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
• The answer, as many locals are already too aware, is bureaucratic red tape.
  — Christopher Calton, Orange County Register, 16 Apr. 2024
• This duck and cover would be the equivalent of killing the project—and would betray the many bureaucratic professionals who approved it.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• Voters were fed up with the endless bureaucratic demands placed on the country and felt that its rules had been chipping away at British sovereignty.
  — Ben Evansky, Fox News, 11 Apr. 2022
• Here, jokes about the city’s storied landmarks and its bureaucratic bottlenecks help ground some of the sitcom’s headier themes.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
• The rest of the city was locked down, but somehow our little group could leave in a window of bureaucratic limbo between the first and second quarantines.
  — Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2022
• Arthur, by his own admission, finds leading the Atlantis high council to be a bureaucratic snooze.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023
• This is true even beyond the bureaucratic corridors of the United Nations.
  — Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 June 2023
• Having that piece of paper in her hands marked the end of a bureaucratic saga for the family and the beginning of possibilities.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 10 June 2023
• The screens transform into a blue sky seen from a barrel-rolling jet, nightfall over a Wyoming ranch, a bank of bureaucratic fluorescents.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023
• But because the world of Beetlejuice includes a campy depiction of the bureaucratic afterlife, Charles isn’t gone from the story.
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2024
• The bureaucratic whiplash stems from the fact that while one part of the Energy Department hands out money for clean energy projects, another part decides which projects get access to the Northwest electrical grid.
  — ProPublica, 20 Sep. 2024
• Petty bureaucratic rules are enforced with a cruel callousness.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024