How to Use bureaucrat in a Sentence

bureaucrat

noun

• Having bureaucrats lose their jobs might make some people feel better, might even be necessary.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2019
• These people don’t recognize or accept the idea that an ambassador or a bureaucrat could be of any use.
  — David E. Sanger, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
• Taking over many functions would be your friendly neighborhood bureaucrat.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 27 June 2019
• The water mafias are well-connected to politicians, bureaucrats, and the police, making them difficult to dislodge.
  — National Geographic, 15 July 2019
• Its bureaucrats are also keen on other barriers to trade, from obscure rules on packaging to prohibitive red-tape on the import of dairy products.
  — The Economist, 29 June 2019
• Why is striking such balances between the interests of rival economic factions the proper concern of politicians and bureaucrats?
  — George Will, Twin Cities, 15 Aug. 2019
• The free market disciplines industry leaders more quickly and justly than politicians or government bureaucrats can.
  — Jessica Melugin, Fortune, 16 July 2019
• Chance’s appeal to political types is oddly fitting given the 26-year-old son of a bureaucrat’s activism in his hometown of Chicago.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 30 July 2019
• Birding was a completely esoteric and perplexing concept for rural bureaucrats in a nation with little contact with the outside world.
  — Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• Founders have this innate magic, whereas managers are just power-hungry bureaucrats.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2024
• Industry officials say state bureaucrats can’t grasp the complexities of gasoline production, and that their involvement could lead to higher prices.
  — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024