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.
• 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
• But if the bureaucracy is mundane and the quirks far quirkier, the stakes of the CIA's mission are also much, much higher.
  — David McCloskey, CNN, 11 Oct. 2021
• 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
• Also a factor is the nature of a bureaucracy that has worked on paper for hundreds of years and is slow to change.
  — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
• Even in our mixed economy, people get caught up in the net of bureaucracy.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2020
• There’s a long chain of permits here with some bureaucracy to manage.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
• What to do about it, of course, is still an open question; bureaucracy moves slowly, and the water is dropping fast.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2022
• Mounting bureaucracy is one of the best ways to ensure people stay put.
  — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
• Also, further cuts are likely as agencies' pursue reductions in force (RIF) to cut as many as 20% to 50% of their workforces in a bid to shrink to the size of the federal bureaucracy.
  — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025
• Her growing attraction to a married colleague and confrontations with gender bias and bureaucracy complicate her journey, ultimately leading her to question the personal costs of her quest for independence.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Mar. 2025