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
• At the home’s front entrance, a man stepped over the red tape.
  — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• The grants are easy to apply for without a lot of red tape.
  — Pam McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 10 Sep. 2022
• The red tape that ensued was hard to believe, even for the DMV.
  — Michael R. Pompeo, latimes.com, 3 July 2018
• Even with a deal, goods trade will have more rules, more red tape and more cost.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Dec. 2020
• For her loved ones, the red tape has added to the pain of seeing her suffer.
  — Wayne Drash, CNN, 17 Aug. 2019
• This means the team knows the struggle, the red tape and also how to overcome them.
  — Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 11 Nov. 2022
• This is where the saying comes [from] about cutting through the red tape.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2020
• And adjusting the rules and cutting red tape is the work of years not months.
  — Julian E. Barnes, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
• The ball was made for tennis, and is tightly wrapped in red tape to add weight.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Dowd's body was found in the blue tarp with red tape wrapped around his head, the report stated.
  — Brooke Newman, The Arizona Republic, 15 Sep. 2020
• Trade between the two countries will now have to go through more red tape.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• If left unchecked, the red tape will choke your vision — and the rest of your company.
  — Lisa Bodell, Forbes, 26 June 2021
• For years, museum red tape in Italy ran as long as the Via Flaminia.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 12 Sep. 2020
• Bella cut through the red tape and threw down a Golden Buzzer free pass for Wheelz.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2022
• The idea was that lower costs and less red tape would enable firms to serve clients whom banks shunned.
  — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
• 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
• In Cairo baksheesh is the simplest way to cut through the airport’s tangle of red tape.
  — The Economist, 29 June 2019
• The car was removed Sunday, and the hole was boarded up with plywood and red tape.
  — Chelsea Prince, ajc, 3 July 2018
• Plans to adapt the grid to clean energy are confronting mountains of red tape.
  — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
• We are held back by lots of regulation, lots of red tape and physics and math.
  — Leonard David, Space.com, 18 Apr. 2025
• 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
• His mission is clear: cut the red tape that slows new power projects and keep homeowners from absorbing the cost through higher monthly bills.
  — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
• While their Medicaid enrollment appears to be secure, at least for now, the new law adds red tape and more opportunities for enrollees like the O'Banners to fall through the cracks and lose coverage.
  — Stephanie Innes, AZCentral.com, 23 July 2025