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
• The red ink will flow freely, and some students will take it hard.
  — oregonlive.com, 15 July 2019
• 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 red ink Trump poured on Lebanon's thin blue line is no anomaly.
  — NBC News, 13 June 2019
• That would surely lead to even more red ink to sop up next year.
  — George Skelton, The Mercury News, 11 June 2024
• 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
• Lyft and Uber are set to report earnings for the quarter ending in June — and all eyes will be on the red ink.
  — Charles Riley and Seth Fiegerman, CNN, 4 Aug. 2019
• The menu, which changes daily, was written in red ink on a dry-erase board above my table.
  — The Enquirer, 12 Apr. 2024
• But Uber remains mired in a morass of red ink, with losses of $6.2 billion during the first half of this year.
  — Michael Liedtke, The Denver Post, 6 Oct. 2019
• Corker has expressed concerns about the red ink that might come with Trump’s tax plans.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Oct. 2017
• The hospital's red ink is rising along with its caseload.
  — Chris Kraul, latimes.com, 13 May 2018
• Still, the red ink stood out on AMC's fourth-quarter earnings report.
  — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2021
• The hypocrisy flows almost as copiously as the red ink.
  — The Washington Post, Twin Cities, 28 July 2019
• 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
• Aunt Mereon gave me my first job, stamping Santa Claus in red ink on white bags.
  — Julia Wick, latimes.com, 13 June 2019
• Voting machines can read black and blue ink, which is why recounts should use red ink.
  — Carrie Watters, The Arizona Republic, 13 May 2021
• But the red ink this business will generate is just the visible part of the problem.
  — Stephen J. K. Walters, Baltimore Sun, 21 Mar. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024