ink in

phrasal verb

inked in; inking in; inks in
: to write or draw (something) in ink
She carefully inked in the letters.

Examples of ink in in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Surface tension holds the ink in place in a tiny open nozzle until a mechanism pushes the ink to eject a drop. Phillip W. Barth, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Mar. 2024 Hemsworth and wife Elsa Pataky were both recently inked in Los Angeles by tattoo artist Trudy Lines, who showed off a photo carousel of the session on Instagram. Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 8 Apr. 2024 But as work done by my team of chemistry researchers suggests, up to 90% of tattoo inks in the U.S. might be mislabeled. John Swierk, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2024 The Voynich Text Inside the tome are innumerable lines of looping text, inked in iron-gall ink — a medium typical of the Middle Ages. Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024 And astute soccer fans will know that Durban was also behind the $500 million purchase of a minority share in Manchester City, a landmark transfer inked in 2019. James McClain, Robb Report, 8 Feb. 2024 The second is the printing bot, which applies these inks in a grid onto a single substrate. Dina Genkina, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2023 When the pact with Apple was inked in 2022, MLS became the first league to make 100 percent of its inventory on a streaming service instead of broadcast or cable. Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2023 But federal court schedules are notorious for sliding as pretrial proceedings and possible appeals issues play out, so don’t write any of these dates in ink in your calendar just yet. Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2023

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“Ink in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ink%20in. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.

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