bleed

Example Sentences

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“Until higher oil prices bleed over into higher inflation expectations, to us, it hasn’t translated into a stagflation environment yet.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026

“These waves of conflict started to bleed into one another,” Oze said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

“Sinners” is a meditation on how the past’s crimes and terrors bleed into the present, rendered by a Black artist using a popular genre, horror, as half of his canvas.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026

If they do, she said: "It will start to cascade into other prices such as food, agriculture, industrial commodities and that's just going to really bleed into inflation."

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

He had been able to bleed ten cents out of his mother for carfare home, although she had even begrudged him that.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole