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.
• Corporate websites aren’t being forced to look alike because of cheapness or bureaucracy.
  — Mike Fitzmaurice, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• In Italy, developers must clear layers of bureaucracy and avoid ancient ruins to build solar farms in rural areas.
  — Matthew Dalton, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2022
• There are ways to make merry with never-neverland bureaucracy, but a lot of these debut seasons suffered from narrative delay tactics.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2022
• The relationship is surveil, incarcerate, harass, the government bureaucracy, all of that stuff.
  — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• While oversight is necessary, excessive bureaucracy can hinder agility.
  — Sherzod Odilov, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
• But there are drastic differences in how their respective plans would affect the U.S. health care system’s economics—and the people who confront its bureaucracy daily.
  — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024