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
  • His long tenure as a healthcare bureaucrat should come to an end.
    — Andrew Mark Miller, Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2020
  • Now, the two long term time bureaucrats were once referred to as brothers and arms.
    — Fox News, 31 July 2018
  • Goethe, in his first decade at Weimar, lived half as a child of nature, half as a bureaucrat.
    — Merve Emre, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Washington is far from the bureaucrat-type of chief who sits in his office.
    — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The bureaucrat who struggles to find a way to do right by his tribal mother, and many more.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The bureaucrats in charge chose to lie to the public about this unpleasant fact.
    — Josh Mazer, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2025
  • Agents die in the field; bureaucrats toast their memory over glasses of port.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
  • But is this to become something for bureaucrats to hide behind?
    — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 12 Jan. 2024
  • And the best and the brightest will want to become bureaucrats, not entrepreneurs.
    — Ugo Troiano, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Townspeople, soldiers, and bureaucrats alike all wear the split-toe shoe.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2024
  • At least the federal bureaucrats’ boss has to face the voters every four years.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
  • This bill gives more power to the same bureaucrats that created this mess and asks ratepayers to trust them again.
    — Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 13 May 2025
  • These employees seemed to long for the steady hand of a veteran bureaucrat.
    — Nick Miroff, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Nobody likes to be told what to do, especially by the bureaucrat class.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The state of Connecticut should not force parents to jump through hoops held by state bureaucrats.
    — Nicholas Tampio, Hartford Courant, 10 Mar. 2026
  • But this made a mockery of the idea that markets, rather than bureaucrats, should determine trade flows.
    — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The push will also require a lot more state and federal bureaucrats.
    — Time, 2 Aug. 2023
  • There’s no way to collect that money, but don’t be surprised if the city has to hire more bureaucrats to process the late fees.
    — Susan Shelley, Daily News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Here, Hamm plays a no-nonsense bureaucrat in this satire of corporate mores.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 8 June 2022
  • The bureaucrats of the New Deal understood that very well.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Trump is the one person who can stop this proposal with one word to the federal bureaucrats who put forth this plan.
    — Shane Weddle, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2026
  • But the check endured anyhow, too useful to be stamped out by a bunch of persnickety bureaucrats.
    — David Scharfenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Here’s to bureaucrats, who always get the grief, and never the credit, who will work long, hard hours through this crisis.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 17 Mar. 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
  • But now Morell, with the support of the Kennedy School’s chief bureaucrat, has the last word.
    — John B. Judis, New Republic, 15 Sep. 2017
  • That’s hundreds of billions of your tax dollars flushed down the drain without swamp bureaucrats blinking an eye.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Even the bureaucrats at NASA have grand plans for the future.
    — Nicola Twilley, Wired, 11 Feb. 2020
  • 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

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