How to Use redline in a Sentence

redline

1 of 2 noun
  • For the money, there still isn't a better fling-about, redline-hungry, tire-smoking sports car to be had.
    — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The tach shows a low redline for the first 500 miles, until the engine is broken in.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2019
  • Also looming are new redlines and deadlines in the mess called Brexit.
    — Washington Post, 23 July 2019
  • The rest is simply the joy of a healthy torque curve—once the boost is up, this engine positively charges for the redline.
    — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Despite its tractor soundtrack, the diesel five is smooth from idle to whatever redline is (there's no tach).
    — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 16 Aug. 2023
  • And its 8,500 rpm redline makes the best Porsche sounds imaginable.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Outrageously loud from idle to redline, at lower speeds the engine buzzes and vibrates through the cabin.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 6 Mar. 2021
  • There's numbness in the steering, but the gearbox is clever enough to downshift under braking and upshift at redline.
    — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The point is, revving the RS3 to redline should be done often and with great enthusiasm.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Today’s free-breathing engine will soon be a thing of the past, but likely so too is its 9,000-rpm redline.
    — Joel Feder, The Drive, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Iran has long viewed its nuclear program as a redline in negotiations with the West.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • At its 6,800-rpm redline, the Miata blares like a four-cylinder trombone.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Some say hitting the 9000-rpm redline while driving through a canyon is as close as a Porschephile can come to heaven.
    — Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Running from idle to redline fills the cabin with guttural chortles that turn to a sawing scream as the engine charges to 9000 rpm.
    — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 20 Apr. 2021
  • As the revs climb toward the 7,000-rpm redline, the rear wing deploys, pressing the car harder into the pavement.
    — Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Floor it and the engine races to its 7,500 rpm redline, pushing occupants back like a runaway, well, mustang.
    — Mark Phelan, chicagotribune.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Will legal teams be allowed to review contracts or redlines using generative AI, and if so, with what guardrails in place?
    — Tom Dunlop, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • And legging the throttle through the gears to the 7000-rpm redline quickly produces license-threatening speeds.
    — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Many Ukrainians saw the government as having crossed a redline in its expansion of executive power.
    — Nataliya Gumenyuk, Foreign Affairs, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Honda uses electronic aides to mimic the feel and sound of an enthusiast revving the engine to the redline and slamming though a manual transmission’s gears.
    — Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 28 Dec. 2025
  • The mill pumps out 502 hp and 331 ft lbs of torque, all of which is routed to the rear wheels via a six-speed manual, and redlines at 9,000 rpm.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The book was completed months before Anthropic’s redlines generated new interest in autonomous-drone swarms and killer robots, but even then the writing was on the wall.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The mill produces 389 hp and 366 ft lbs of torque, all of which is routed to the rear wheels via a five-speed manual gearbox, and redlines at 7,700 rpm.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 29 June 2026
  • As part of the agreement, OpenAI placed limitations barring the use of its AI for purposes that go against its redlines, Altman said.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • This is because their fate is dictated not by smart growth, but by a redline that codified an old route when Highway 101 gave way to the I-5 originally laid out for open-air roadsters a century ago.
    — Harry Bubbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But anywhere nearer the 8,250-rpm redline reveals more of the manic Maranello magic, where the trill mechanical song of the V12 balances out against a screaming exhaust note.
    — Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Ferrari’s press staff argues strongly that the Testarossa will sing that familiar Italian aria, with a particularly exuberant flourish near the 8300-rpm redline.
    — Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Underlining the importance of noise to people who buy Lamborghinis is the fact that the Temerario’s peak power comes in at 9,000rpm, but the redline is indicated at 10,250rpm.
    — James Morris, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • The technical limitations will include systems that would classify any of the prompts DOW users feed OpenAI’s models and refuse any that the classifier deems might violate OpenAI’s redlines.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • After OpenAI published some of the terms of the contract on Saturday, many outside observers immediately questioned how the redlines on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance would actually be upheld, with some saying the language would still allow the safeguards to be disregarded.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 4 Mar. 2026

redline

2 of 2 verb
  • The patterns that led to urban heat islands are linked to redlining.
    — Melba Newsome, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The myth of the free artist, chasing inspiration across the fields of imagination, has been redlined by lawyers.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • For me, redlining, taking away access to our indigenous foods, indigenous medicines, to me, all of that is a form of control.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2023
  • But the rest of the city is holding down the neighborhood by effectively redlining social problems there.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 7 Sep. 2017
  • As many on the panel noted, redlining, attacks on voting rights, and police violence are all problems right now.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 June 2019
  • There’s a distinct satisfaction in revving the engine to redline, pressing the clutch, and snapping the shifter into the next gear.
    — Michael Harley, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The top three issues Detroit is facing is unemployment, redlining, and blight.
    — Katrease Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Asked by the moderator about that comment, Bloomberg called the idea that redlining caused the crisis exactly wrong.
    — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2020
  • There was the insidious practice of redlining by banks, and many city neighborhoods had racial-restrictive covenants.
    — Gene Balk / Fyi Guy, The Seattle Times, 11 June 2017
  • These movements have appeared in many forms and have familiar names such as Jim Crow, redlining and separate but equal.
    — baltimoresun.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The 20th century brought redlining and the destruction of black neighborhoods.
    — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 6 May 2020
  • Despite the exhibit’s success, McMurray said there are still many stories to share about redlining.
    — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 2 June 2026
  • But the act of redlining areas meant that homeowners who got in trouble during the Depression wouldn’t be eligible for a bailout.
    — National Geographic, 17 Oct. 2016
  • Ringelstein helped redline the legislation.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 21 June 2026
  • This wealth disparity stems from Connecticut’s long history of redlining.
    — Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 2 Apr. 2026
  • This may not seem like new news, considering the contentious standing that diversity has held in this country—from Jim Crow to redlining.
    — Marcus Collins, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • It was initially created to address the practice of redlining—or banks failing to serve poor and minority neighborhoods.
    — Ryan Tracy, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2018
  • Many of the communities that have substandard housing today or are located near toxic sites are the same as those that were segregated and redlined decades ago.
    — Kat Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2023
  • Clark said that the FNB agreement is the thirteenth redlining settlement reached since the initiative’s creation.
    — Kyle Ingram, Charlotte Observer, 5 Feb. 2024
  • And the high cost of living combined with rising utility and property tax bills have areas long marked by historic disinvestment and redlining feeling frozen in time.
    — Kansas City Star, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Extensive research in the past few years has shown that the scars of redlining persist, particularly in terms of poorer health outcomes for residents of those areas.
    — Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • That trend stems from decades of redlining and disinvestment in predominantly Black neighborhoods.
    — Lily Carey, Baltimore Sun, 27 Apr. 2026
  • At the tournaments that really count the most, the majors, there’s so much testing of these players that there’s not going to be someone suddenly redlining and winning seven matches in a row.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • And the new engine, in manual-transmission R guise, is a blast, exploding above 6000 rpm with a frenetic fizz to redline.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 23 Jan. 2020
  • So the federal government was complicit in this reverse-redlining in the period leading up to 2008.
    — Katie Nodjimbadem, Smithsonian, 30 May 2017
  • In the 1930s, the federal government codified these boundaries through redlining.
    — Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
  • From slavery to Jim Crow, from redlining to mass incarceration to the unequal distribution of government largesse, power has been the first link in the chain.
    — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2019
  • The Taskforce has brought in $122 million in redlining settlements since it was created, the DOJ said.
    — Ken Sweet, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Researchers have also pointed to redlining as one factor behind the wealth disparities between Black and white Americans today.
    — Javacia Harris Bowser, Good Housekeeping, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Neighborhoods that were redlined 100 years ago are hotter today because of urban heat islands [see Islands of Illness].
    — Yessenia Funes, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023

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