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.
  • And there will be a whole lot of bureaucracy.
    — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 14 Sep. 2025
  • It will get done, so don’t waste their time with bureaucracy!
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
  • That money could take longer to wind its way through the bureaucracy.
    — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2021
  • My case, this time, is lost in the labyrinth of bureaucracy in Ankara.
    — Nick Hilden, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2022
  • That request will take weeks, if not months, to work its way through the bureaucracy.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • To shout through the bureaucracy and the closed-door meetings.
    — Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The good news for the drug-war bureaucracy is that its jobs program is secure.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Once the bureaucracy was out of the way, there were still the logistics on the ground.
    — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
  • There’s a long chain of permits here with some bureaucracy to manage.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • For decades, the company had been known for its pass-the-buck bureaucracy.
    — Rick Tetzeli, Fortune, 23 May 2018
  • The bureaucracy that burned right alongside the town.
    — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
  • Even in our mixed economy, people get caught up in the net of bureaucracy.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2020
  • That is part of a larger plan to cut government waste and bureaucracy.
    — Jackson Walker, Baltimore Sun, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Mounting bureaucracy is one of the best ways to ensure people stay put.
    — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Others don’t want to deal with the bureaucracy, forms, and delays in the appeals process.
    — Richard Eisenberg, Fortune Well, 24 Apr. 2023
  • But a well-functioning bureaucracy is a thing of grace and wonder.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 23 June 2019
  • So, choose a scent that pairs perfectly with the lack of screentime, bureaucracy, and stress.
    — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 12 Nov. 2022
  • That’s a lofty goal—some would say an unattainable one—but at least he’ll be less hampered by bureaucracy trying to achieve it.
    — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2022
  • This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy.
    — ABC News, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Taxpayer money is not a blank check to grow bureaucracy.
    — Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Delays and bureaucracy are driving up costs and pushing people out of the city.
    — Teresa Liu, Daily News, 4 May 2026
  • Muslims and Buddhists served side by side in the royal court and the bureaucracy.
    — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Instead, they've been met by a hostile bureaucracy.
    — Shibani Mahtani, NPR, 21 June 2026
  • Poole said reducing the bureaucracy would be a step in the right direction.
    — Mike Cason, AL.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Yet there was very little time for Saeid to see the country because of the amount of bureaucracy to get through.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Yet there was very little time for Saeid to see the country because of the amount of bureaucracy to get through.
    — Simon Hughes, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026

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