How to Use bureaucratic in a Sentence

bureaucratic

adjective

• And to, of course, keep them snarled in bureaucratic red tape.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 7 Aug. 2022
• And yet the heavy hand of the bureaucratic status quo had to make its presence known.
  — Deborah Padgett, CNN, 11 Apr. 2022
• This means for every $1 spent on building, $0.40 is lost to the bureaucratic process.
  — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2024
• But if the same old bureaucratic hurdles stand in the way of access to those programs, no one wins.
  — Andrew Heath, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
• In short, bureaucratic hurdles got in the way, though there’s hope that at least some of the chargers will go online next year.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
• Shoigu, more of a behind-the-scenes bureaucratic player than a public brawler like Prigozhin, came up with a plan to put Prigozhin in his place.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 June 2023
• Even then, the process took about 15 years of bureaucratic wrangling and court appeals.
  — Laura Wagner, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
• But for the LooksRare duo, that’s bureaucratic Web2 stuff.
  — Jessica Klein, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
• But any crimes involved are about bureaucratic sloth, and how some of the women are treated.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023
• There are people in this state trying to churn the wheels of progress, but the buildup of bureaucratic rust and egos is making this a difficult task.
  — Al Topich Special To The Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 2 Jan. 2025
• Seth knows bureaucratic union rules and gory details about vampires but can’t shoot a gun.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 9 Aug. 2022
• Both red states and blue states are accused in this bureaucratic nightmare.
  — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
• While the bureaucratic hurdles can be substantial, many migrants do make it through the process.
  — Anthony Izaguirre, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2023
• In this bureaucratic city, that counts as a happy ending.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2023
• One of the reasons for that was because of the bureaucratic process that delays everything.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
• But in bureaucratic or short-staffed environments, even six months to a year of notice may not be long enough.
  — Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
• Still, due to bureaucratic hurdles, the process could take between a few months to several years.
  — Sira Thierij, NPR, 26 Dec. 2024
• This bureaucratic process has ramped up over the past two years as part of an effort to save money and retain patients within the VA, records show.
  — USA Today, 1 Nov. 2021
• Who would sit through days of bureaucratic meetings just to observe?
  — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 10 May 2024
• Witnesses said the long delays were caused by bureaucratic hurdles on both sides of the border.
  — Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
• Don’t test bureaucratic matters; just deal with them and press forward.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
• The projects are expensive, the rules can be complex and the bureaucratic hurdles can be dauntingly high.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2022
• The answer, as many locals are already too aware, is bureaucratic red tape.
  — Christopher Calton, Orange County Register, 16 Apr. 2024
• Vera de Aponte is one of thousands of immigrants who have lost their jobs -- or are on the cusp of losing them -- due to bureaucratic delays.
  — Priscilla Alvarez, CNN, 26 Nov. 2021
• This duck and cover would be the equivalent of killing the project—and would betray the many bureaucratic professionals who approved it.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• Voters were fed up with the endless bureaucratic demands placed on the country and felt that its rules had been chipping away at British sovereignty.
  — Ben Evansky, Fox News, 11 Apr. 2022
• Here, jokes about the city’s storied landmarks and its bureaucratic bottlenecks help ground some of the sitcom’s headier themes.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
• But Rove also warned that the EPA is a bureaucratic and complex department that will not be easy to navigate.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Nov. 2024
• But the process has been entangled in legal battles and bureaucratic red tape.
  — Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2022
• But the process of acquiring those papers from the city’s housing authorities involves decades of bureaucratic twists and turns.
  — Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet, & Axel Hernández, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Jan 2025