How to Use red ink in a Sentence

red ink

noun

• The blood will be mixed into the red ink found on the bubble sole of the shoe.
  — Claire Shaffer, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2021
• But a scan of the premiere list is a sea of red ink and broken dreams.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• Medieval manuscripts too gave pride of place to red ink.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2021
• The idea seems to be that only a tide of red ink on the day would have shown that the stock market has a soul.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2020
• There is more to the tiny biotech company than red ink and long-shot projects.
  — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
• But one venue, the Pirate Ship, was sinking in red ink.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 20 Nov. 2020
• The message is hard to miss when the eyes or mouth in a portrait are covered with red ink.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
• Yet no one apart from Netflix—the first to market—has been able to escape the rivers of red ink.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
• Without it, Metra will have to find other ways to stanch the red ink down the line, Ochab said.
  — Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com, 13 Oct. 2021
• The number crunchers will point to line after line of red ink.
  — Jean Marbella, baltimoresun.com, 6 Nov. 2020
• Still, the red ink stood out on AMC's fourth-quarter earnings report.
  — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2021
• Data provider FactSet says that was at the end of a string of annual red ink that began in 2006.
  — Tom Krisher, ajc, 27 Jan. 2021
• Voting machines can read black and blue ink, which is why recounts should use red ink.
  — Carrie Watters, The Arizona Republic, 13 May 2021
• The machine that scans the ballots cannot read red ink, and this creates extra work for the election workers.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2021
• So far, those initiatives are proving to not be enough to keep the agency from drowning in red ink.
  — Jay Heflin, Washington Examiner, 21 Aug. 2020
• The voter reads the page of instructions, then uses a pen with dark ink — not red ink or pencil — to fill out the ballot.
  — Morgan Cook, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2020
• There are some mitigating factors that could save the city from spilling too much red ink.
  — Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Oct. 2021
• The old one, Communism, could not destroy us, but the new one, red ink, well might — and the danger comes from inside our own house (and House).
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Dec. 2019
• And, to add to the authenticity, the replies are signed in red ink, the enveloped hand-canceled from the North Pole and sealed with Santa’s name in wax.
  — Michelle Matthews | [e-mail], al, 10 Dec. 2019
• But the marina is expected to be soaking in red ink by the end of the current budget year.
  — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2021
• Anthony Beale, who says the city’s swimming in red ink and can’t afford to lose any revenue.
  — Lisa Donovan, chicagotribune.com, 22 Nov. 2019
• Barnard’s predecessor, Tom Oldendick, came on in 1980 to stop the flow of red ink.
  — Kerry Lengel, azcentral, 4 Dec. 2019
• The spike in red ink is due to the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Jay Heflin, Washington Examiner, 16 Oct. 2020
• Much of the red ink this year has been caused by the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Jay Heflin, Washington Examiner, 2 Sep. 2020
• The Big Gig is dealing with red ink as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2020
• By using Grammarly, the author of this essay could have avoided some red ink.
  — The Economist, 27 Feb. 2021
• To stem the flow of red ink last year, the district was forced to reduce its regular and seasonal staffing by 85 percent.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2021
• Canada hasn’t had such a large annual increase in red ink as a share of GDP since at least the 1982 recession.
  — Theophilos Argitis, Bloomberg.com, 18 Mar. 2020
• The Washington Post, citing police, reports that the numbers were written on the girl's feet in red ink.
  — Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2022
• States and cities staring down red ink with the shattered economy have few options.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024