bleed

Example Sentences

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Meituan 3690 -3.67%decrease; red down pointing triangle recorded a loss in the final quarter of 2025 as the food-delivery giant continued to bleed from the brutal price war in China.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

“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

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

“Veridis Quo” begins gently, repeating its opening chords and creating an atmosphere of soft sorrow until a drum line and a synth bleed into the song, defying the instrumental’s bittersweetness.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026

“I should have done this a month ago. The canes bleed if they’re pruned this late, but better late than never, as they say.”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt