How to Use red tape in a Sentence

red tape

noun

• You would not believe the red tape involved in getting the required permits.
• Why all this red tape in the way of the best and the brightest?
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 6 Feb. 2024
• But that’s where the easy part of the project ends — and the red tape begins.
  — Amy Bushatz, Anchorage Daily News, 1 May 2022
• Kids play in the background, as members of the crowd joke about the red tape.
  — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 July 2022
• The grants are easy to apply for without a lot of red tape.
  — Pam McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 10 Sep. 2022
• This means the team knows the struggle, the red tape and also how to overcome them.
  — Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 11 Nov. 2022
• Incentives to builders and plans to cut red tape are among the chief tools in the statewide effort.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 9 Apr. 2024
• But the layers of red tape mean few people want to take the time to get clearance to speak.
  — Maggie Fox, CNN, 30 July 2021
• But the rates never changed, despite the easing of red tape.
  — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 22 Apr. 2022
• If left unchecked, the red tape will choke your vision — and the rest of your company.
  — Lisa Bodell, Forbes, 26 June 2021
• Bella cut through the red tape and threw down a Golden Buzzer free pass for Wheelz.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2022
• There’s quite a lot of red tape as to where cameras can be placed within the buildings, though.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 26 May 2023
• Plans to adapt the grid to clean energy are confronting mountains of red tape.
  — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
• The team spent 17 days on board, but much of the work was waylaid by bureaucratic red tape.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2023
• Everything is always draped in miles and miles of red tape.
  — Fox News, 27 June 2022
• The driver’s-side taillight was replaced with red tape and the tailgate was faded.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 5 Dec. 2021
• Gloria vowed to keep cutting through red tape at City Hall.
  — David Garrick jan. 11, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2023
• For Hsu, this red tape is the No. 1 reason Oxbryta hasn’t been more widely used.
  — Jason Mast, STAT, 19 Dec. 2022
• Patzer pushed for 15 years to jump-start the data collection process but said she was stymied by red tape.
  — Ben Tanen, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
• Peskin blamed the city’s housing dearth on market forces, not red tape.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• The Policy that needs the most work is getting rid of some of the red tape for business to start building here.
  — Brooks Johnson, Star Tribune, 27 July 2021
• Twenty twenty-three could be the year red tape loses its grip.
  — Jonathan Wolfson, National Review, 1 Feb. 2023
• The good news is the vessels will stay anchored while officials sort through that red tape.
  — [e-mail], Robb Report, 25 Mar. 2022
• Whether the plan can make it through government red tape – and the courts – is a different story.
  — Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• Yes, but: Local and state officials have sought ways to cut down the red tape in recent years.
  — Shawna Chen, Axios, 26 Sep. 2024
• Some landlords say that the red tape of the rental assistance program has caused problems for them, too.
  — Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2021
• But now comes a bunch of red tape, including figuring out how to start the divorce process.
  — Elizabeth Kiefer, Glamour, 25 Dec. 2023
• The red tape has left the Kaitzs in limbo, with Sam spending about $70 per day for lodging in Mexico City.
  — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
• This culture gap erodes experimentation, stifles agility and bogs down teams in red tape.
  — Andrea Ruskin, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
• Read more Here's why diabetes patients are worried Over the past year, many patients who depend on insulin have encountered shortages, delays and red tape from drug companies and pharmacies.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024