How to Use officialdom in a Sentence

officialdom

noun

• From the boot of his car, Tony hands me my armor of officialdom: a high-vis vest with a clipboard and binder.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 16 Jan. 2023
• These are all the things that mean the recognition of officialdom.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 16 Aug. 2023
• Nothing had been done yet but officialdom was on the case.
  — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• So far, no one in officialdom has had the nerve to object - not publicly, at least.
  — Robyn Dixon and Catherine Belton, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2023
• The National Gallery, which, by the way, opened 20 years after the Phillips, is a temple of art and has the imprimatur of officialdom.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Sep. 2021
• Then Robin takes over, and the film changes tenor once more from a comedy of officialdom to a high-voltage love story.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 10 Aug. 2022
• Artists once again serve at the pleasure of officialdom, whose purview—like the surveillance state itself—grows more total by the day.
  — Laura Kipnis, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
• The 55-year-old Roizman is a rare figure in Russia's officialdom.
  — Fox News, 2 Apr. 2018
• The officialdom of Paris seemed to accept this, approving the construction of a new skyscraper, the Tour Triangle, that same year.
  — Colin Marshall, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2023
• To date, Olympic officialdom has furnished nothing but bland pledges.
  — Sally Jenkins, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
• But like The Wire, another show about a shadow economy both harassed and made possible by officialdom, The Deuce is about more than its big-name stars.
  — Ellen Gray, Philly.com, 6 Sep. 2017
• But even after decades in the country, other Kayan have not been issued such paperwork, leaving them at the mercy of Thai officialdom.
  — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2020
• Their police state stalks them; U.S. officialdom sees them as potential spies; anti-Asian hate crimes endanger them on the street.
  — Haruka Sakaguchi, ProPublica, 30 Nov. 2021
• The wariness and mistrust of officialdom that gives John the the strength to prevail in refugee camps and at border crossings translates quickly into a lack of trust of the Australians who genuinely want to help his young charge.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2017
• By late February, the network had found its voice in part by echoing messages from Russian officialdom.
  — Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 11 Mar. 2022
• This is a line that is hardly exclusive to Chinese officialdom.
  — David Rieff, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2022
• But while a crop of new and exclusively male faces now populate the top of European officialdom, the institutions many of them lead are the same as ever.
  — Rachel Elbaum, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2017
• The other witnesses in Michigan tried to channel a grand falsehood into the language of officialdom.
  — New York Times, 17 Dec. 2020
• But lately even Baidu has fallen foul of Chinese officialdom.
  — Time, 18 Jan. 2018
• The debate has spread through Polish officialdom, with diplomats tasked with determining the true nature of Mr. Bond’s visit, 56 years ago.
  — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020
• So Mr Trump could hardly have done more to aggravate German officialdom.
  — The Economist, 15 July 2017
• That thought is not new, but is increasingly echoed privately in some corners of officialdom.
  — Luke McGee, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
• This required clever and gutsy navigating through military officialdom and hitching all sorts of rides on jeeps and planes.
  — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 29 May 2017
• Onlookers gathered to watch the rituals of aftermath: trucks sirening up, the clatter of officialdom.
  — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
• At the moment, the market’s towering P/E and officialdom’s supply-chain optimism are the lone possible signals that trouble could be brewing.
  — Larry Light, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2021
• The Post’s reporting on Afghan war lies by officialdom is already being compared to those monumental papers.
  — Ivan Eland, Twin Cities, 19 Dec. 2019
• And Qatari officialdom has brushed off criticism in an often hamfisted manner.
  — Time, 16 Dec. 2022
• But Simon acknowledged that the tour may have little leverage to influence Chinese officialdom.
  — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2021
• These efforts were driven by teachers who often had to work below the radar of education officialdom—a parallel universe working in the shadows of their school’s formal structures and reform plans.
  — Kristina Rizga, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2020
• Yet the unions’ cozy but paradoxical relationship with officialdom empowers them to block change.
  — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024