How to Use bureaucrat in a Sentence

bureaucrat

noun

• Even state bureaucrats are now being asked to do the same.
  — Stephanie Ebbert, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Mar. 2018
• The scandal has left a trail of unfinished projects, frightened politicians and bureaucrats, and wary bankers.
  — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
• As Iannucci learned in researching the film, Malenkov was a consummate bureaucrat.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 5 Mar. 2018
• Trump is reorganizing the public land Leviathan - and DC bureaucrats are not happy.
  — Fox News, 14 Mar. 2018
• The child is well-known in the halls where state bureaucrats oversee health care for millions of Californians — not by name, but by a number: $21 million.
  — NBC News, 28 Feb. 2018
• After Medicare passed, the heads of government agencies tasked thousands of bureaucrats with getting senior citizens to sign up and physicians to agree to care for them.
  — Michael Kazin, The New Republic, 27 Feb. 2018
• And the bill for new money to keep streams clean and stocked with trout — that will take a back seat while the political assassination of a trout-fishing and streams bureaucrat becomes top priority.
  — Maria Panaritis, Philly.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Federal bureaucrats dragged their feet on school reopening, then sat on their hands after school closures advocated by national teachers unions erased two decades of learning improvement.
  — Erika Donalds, The Mercury News, 19 Dec. 2024
• The bureaucrat and the former head of the school have been charged with bribery.
  — Mari Yamaguchi, The Seattle Times, 7 Nov. 2018
• Even the bureaucrats at NASA have grand plans for the future.
  — Nicola Twilley, Wired, 11 Feb. 2020
• Not be run by a bunch of bureaucrats based in Brussels.
  — Fox News, 12 July 2018
• The career bureaucrat’s tool of choice has become the leak.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 10 June 2021
• Now, the two long term time bureaucrats were once referred to as brothers and arms.
  — Fox News, 31 July 2018
• Trump’s close aides have long seen the ranks of bureaucrats as standing in the way of the President’s efforts.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 13 Feb. 2020
• The hard-Brexit crowd, who long to tell the bureaucrats of Brussels to get stuffed, admire Mr Trump’s no-nonsense approach to the rest of the world.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2018
• Again and again, the red tape of bureaucrats interferes in the simple pleasures of pasture and open sky.
  — Eliot Schrefer, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2019
• Washington is far from the bureaucrat-type of chief who sits in his office.
  — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2022
• His long tenure as a healthcare bureaucrat should come to an end.
  — Andrew Mark Miller, Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2020
• Caught in the mix are the teachers and bus drivers, bureaucrats and police officers who make up the spine of the nation’s day-to-day life.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 23 Apr. 2020
• Here’s to bureaucrats, who always get the grief, and never the credit, who will work long, hard hours through this crisis.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 17 Mar. 2020
• Who scrounged to build her home and start a small business, struggled to meet a payroll and was forced to deal with clueless bureaucrats.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
• About 900 people were injured in the accident, P.K. Jena, the top bureaucrat in the eastern state of Odisha, said in a tweet.
  — Ashok Sharma, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
• At least the federal bureaucrats’ boss has to face the voters every four years.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
• But this made a mockery of the idea that markets, rather than bureaucrats, should determine trade flows.
  — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
• City council members and their key staffers, as well as top-level bureaucrats, declined to speak on the record about Smith.
  — Gordon R. Friedman, OregonLive.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Ethanol and corn industry groups said language in the rule leaves too much at the whim of federal bureaucrats and could cause ethanol use to fall short.
  — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
• Here, Hamm plays a no-nonsense bureaucrat in this satire of corporate mores.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 8 June 2022
• Yao, then 24, had been asked to address a large, diverse group of NBA players and Chinese bureaucrats.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 27 June 2019
• Nobody likes to be told what to do, especially by the bureaucrat class.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 2 Dec. 2021
• However, their immediate goal is to slash the $500 billion in annual discretionary spending authorized by unelected bureaucrats rather than Congress.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025