How to Use bureaucrat in a Sentence

bureaucrat

noun

• The bureaucrat and the former head of the school have been charged with bribery.
  — Mari Yamaguchi, The Seattle Times, 7 Nov. 2018
• Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat.
  — Fox News, 15 Aug. 2018
• The hardest part was following the strict protocol of being a stern Swiss bureaucrat while asking such awkward questions.
  — Vogue, 9 Oct. 2018
• But time and again, bureaucrats redact information that's embarrassing to them that the American people have a right to know.
  — Fox News, 22 Sep. 2018
• No one should expect otherwise, but the dedication of high-level government bureaucrats is not the issue.
  — George Melloan, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2018
• The president should under no circumstance fire this beleaguered bureaucrat.
  — Fox News, 24 Sep. 2018
• Meanwhile, state lawmakers and bureaucrats watch from the sidelines, reluctant to intervene.
  — Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, ProPublica, 22 May 2019
• Businessmen, not bureaucrats, will create the job opportunities voters seek.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2018
• Even the bureaucrats at NASA have grand plans for the future.
  — Nicola Twilley, Wired, 11 Feb. 2020
• The career bureaucrat’s tool of choice has become the leak.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 10 June 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Townspeople, soldiers, and bureaucrats alike all wear the split-toe shoe.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2024
• But is this to become something for bureaucrats to hide behind?
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 12 Jan. 2024
• And the bureaucrat on whose desk that application landed took one look at it, squinted, and said . . .
  — Amy Nicholson, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2022
• Haney said the saga of the Noe Valley toilet should be a lesson for the city’s political leaders and bureaucrats.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2023
• Brandon Wales, a career bureaucrat and third in line behind Krebs, is now leading the agency, the people said.
  — Alyza Sebenius, Bloomberg.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• The push will also require a lot more state and federal bureaucrats.
  — Time, 2 Aug. 2023
• The Project 2025 videos coach future appointees on everything from the nuts and bolts of governing to how to outwit bureaucrats.
  — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 10 Aug. 2024
• Rankin himself plays a Farsi-speaking Montreal bureaucrat who returns to Winnipeg to see his mother, only to find his family altered beyond recognition.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024