Example sentences for: bureaucrat

How can you use “bureaucrat” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The U.N. secretary-general, says the article, is a career bureaucrat who "succeeds at little things and fails at big things."

  • That is the locus of one of Ronald Reagan's favorite stories, about the bureaucrat who was found with his head down on his desk, sobbing because his Indian had died.

  • Royko could make you laugh and make you think, stir outrage at a heartless bureaucrat, or bring a tear to the eye when he flashed a glimpse of the heart hidden beneath his hard shell.

  • "While I applaud the effort to hold schools accountable for the money they receive, I would strongly oppose any program that would give power over the lives of children to a federal bureaucrat."

  • But often, she says, the resulting reforms have been cosmetic--a token low-level bureaucrat assigned to "hear" problems, with no forum to do anything about them.


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