How to Use red ink in a Sentence

red ink

noun
  • Wilkins signed one shoe in red ink.
    — Mirin Fader, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • Let’s grab the red ink and grade the trade.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Let’s bust out the red ink and put some grades on this trade.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 29 June 2026
  • Let’s bust out the red ink and slap some grades on this deal.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 23 June 2026
  • Let’s bust out the red ink and slap some grades on this deal.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 25 June 2026
  • Let’s bust out the red ink and throw down some grades on this deal.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • That would surely lead to even more red ink to sop up next year.
    — George Skelton, The Mercury News, 11 June 2024
  • The red ink will flow freely, and some students will take it hard.
    — oregonlive.com, 15 July 2019
  • But the red ink flowed along with the Birch Beer.
    — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
  • How does a state wading in red ink afford all that?
    — George Skelton, Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2026
  • How does a state wading in red ink afford all that?
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • But a scan of the premiere list is a sea of red ink and broken dreams.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
  • There is more to the tiny biotech company than red ink and long-shot projects.
    — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The blood will be mixed into the red ink found on the bubble sole of the shoe.
    — Claire Shaffer, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2021
  • This is too cheap for a top prospect with so much red ink on his Statcast page.
    — John Laghezza, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The number crunchers will point to line after line of red ink.
    — Jean Marbella, baltimoresun.com, 6 Nov. 2020
  • The budget has been bleeding red ink ever since.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • 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 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
  • The menu, which changes daily, was written in red ink on a dry-erase board above my table.
    — The Enquirer, 12 Apr. 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
  • Every editing session ended in lots of red ink and tears.
    — Ashley Parker, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2026
  • There are some mitigating factors that could save the city from spilling too much red ink.
    — Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Oct. 2021
  • That contributed to three straight years of sales declines and mounting red ink.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2025
  • So far, these measures have not adequately stemmed the red ink.
    — David Folkenflik, NPR, 30 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • But a closer look at the company's finances show something else — a trail of red ink.
    — Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 29 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Mistakes may hurt and temporarily cause your business to bleed red ink.
    — Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2026
  • 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

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