How to Use bureau in a Sentence

bureau

noun
  • The book is on top of my bureau.
  • 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 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
  • Maps from the area’s visitors bureau offer a sense of the difficulty of each route.
    Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The bureau said Apple failed to send tens of thousands of consumer disputes to Goldman Sachs.
    Kristian Burt, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Meanwhile, food and water are in short supply in Gaza, but the bureau has stockpiled supplies for the time being.
    Oliver Darcy, CNN, 11 Oct. 2023
  • On a bureau in the foyer of Wiley’s apartment is a photograph of him and Barack Obama.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • After a fraud alert is in place, you’re entitled to a free copy of your credit report from each bureau.
    Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The men later worked together as sergeants in the training bureau and got to know each other better.
    Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Helen’s watches have all been examined and placed on the bureau.
    Nathan Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The company will roll out the product to some consumers this spring, and will begin reporting the loans to credit bureaus in the fall.
    Cora Lewis, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The three big bureaus are crucial to Americans’ credit histories.
    Jeff Kauflin, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024

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