How to Use redline in a Sentence

redline

1 of 2 noun
Definition of redlinenext
  • The redline for power plants seems to be a leakage rate of 3.2%.
    — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2012
  • The tach shows a low redline for the first 500 miles, until the engine is broken in.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2019
  • And its 8,500 rpm redline makes the best Porsche sounds imaginable.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The point is, revving the RS3 to redline should be done often and with great enthusiasm.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Snap the low-effort gear lever through redline upshifts and 60 mph comes and goes in 8.8 seconds.
    — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 26 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Not only is the Voodoo V-8 more powerful, but the 5.2-liter's sky-high redline keeps it churning away after the GT has to shift.
    — David Beard, Car and Driver, 10 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • Also looming are new redlines and deadlines in the mess called Brexit.
    — Washington Post, 23 July 2019
  • At its 6,800-rpm redline, the Miata blares like a four-cylinder trombone.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017
  • 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 legging the throttle through the gears to the 7000-rpm redline quickly produces license-threatening speeds.
    — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 1 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Its considerable torque plateaus quickly at just 1800 rpm, so there's no need to rev it toward its redline.
    — Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 8 July 2020
  • Putin prefers to needle, to provoke, and test his opponents’ redlines or readiness.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Hard acceleration produces but 75 dBA of cockpit din, and the V-12 winds toward the redline with a smooth, steady surge of power.
    — Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 27 Nov. 2020
  • As with the outgoing GT, redline is 7500 rpm regardless of muffler choice.
    — Sam Smith, Car and Driver, 25 July 2023
  • What worries analysts is that the president does not seem to have a clear redline or standard for what could prompt such conflict with Tehran.
    — Mythili Sampathkumar, Fortune, 18 July 2019
  • Boot the accelerator, and the little four-cylinder engine strains to reach its 6000-rpm redline.
    — Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 29 Nov. 2022
  • However, its shifts are somewhat relaxed and, in our experience, it couldn’t be compelled to hold gears all the way to redline.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 12 July 2017
  • With the tachometer displaying digits rather than a rendered needle, the numbers change color and shake as the three-banger closes in on its 6900-rpm redline.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 15 June 2022
  • RedLine did ask the artists early on to address their economic struggles, but current events got unknowingly out of hand by the time the show opened.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 13 Feb. 2017
  • The big engine has no enthusiasm for revs and is reluctant to reach its modest 4500-rpm redline.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Regardless of precise power level, this inline-6 makes great inline-6 noises at full throttle all the way to redline.
    — Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2020
  • The only real chink in the Giulia's armor in this regard is the engine, or more specifically its redline.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The engine is effective but doesn't feel bred for motorsports, as the preponderance of low-down torque means there's little point in running it up to the redline.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The second map, which is translucent, then moves over the redline map, showing which neighborhoods in New York City suffer from the hottest conditions during the summer.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2024
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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 Taskforce has brought in $122 million in redlining settlements since it was created, the DOJ said.
    — Ken Sweet, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Clark said that the FNB agreement is the thirteenth redlining settlement reached since the initiative’s creation.
    — Kyle Ingram, Charlotte Observer, 5 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • But the rest of the city is holding down the neighborhood by effectively redlining social problems there.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The 20th century brought redlining and the destruction of black neighborhoods.
    — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 6 May 2020
  • 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
  • The top three issues Detroit is facing is unemployment, redlining, and blight.
    — Katrease Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 4 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Formerly redlined ZIP codes also had higher rates of covid infection and death.
    — Liz Szabo, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
  • Formerly redlined ZIP codes also had higher rates of Covid infection and death.
    — Liz Szabo | Kff Health News, NBC News, 16 May 2023
  • So the federal government was complicit in this reverse-redlining in the period leading up to 2008.
    — Katie Nodjimbadem, Smithsonian, 30 May 2017
  • This racial wealth gap is a result not only of the horrors of slavery but also policies – such as Jim Crow laws, redlining and modern-day mass incarceration – that followed.
    — Christian Weller, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Related Stories Turns out Singer’s internal pressure gauge redlined on the Reptile set.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Switch to Race mode and the transmission becomes aggressive, downshifting under braking and holding gears to redline.
    — David Beard, Car and Driver, 9 Aug. 2021
  • In the 1930s, banks wouldn’t lend money to Tenth Street homeowners or buyers because of redlining policies and homes fell into disrepair as homeowners died without will or deed records.
    — Sonia Rao, Dallas News, 17 June 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
  • 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
  • Homeownership is the biggest builder of wealth in America and is still affected by the history of segregation, Jim Crow and redlining.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Black migration to San Francisco soared in the 1940s because of shipyard work, but racially restrictive covenants and redlining limited where people could live.
    — Janie Har, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Those textbooks didn’t mention slave uprisings, the Ku Klux Klan, lynching, poll taxes, separate but equal, redlining, or white privilege.
    — Harold Jackson, Philly.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Black Americans — who for decades in the mid-20th century were shut out of swaths of the housing market by redlining and other racist practices — are disproportionately likely to be first-time buyers.
    — Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Indeed, the whole of Deep Morgan is gone: redlining, white flight, and a particularly aggressive (and ongoing) brand of urban renewal have left the city's black North Side depressed and sparesly built.
    — David Wondrich, Esquire, 26 May 2015
  • There are historical practices like redlining that contribute to current climate risk.
    — Monica Sanders, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024

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