How to Use albatross in a Sentence

albatross

noun

• Fame has become an albatross around her neck.
• Fame has become an albatross that prevents her from leading a normal and happy life.
• On the golf course, the albatross is the rarest of birds.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 June 2022
• And like the ancient mariner who shot the albatross, we are compelled to tell the tale.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 19 July 2023
• The weight of present times drapes over the shoulders, like the albatross of ancient mariner lore.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2021
• The biggest albatross is not being seen for my own work a large part of the time.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2023
• My cabbage steals sun from my mint; the squash has the wingspan of an albatross.
  — Matt Bean, Sunset Magazine, 12 June 2020
• Is this the albatross that Joe alluded to in episode 1?
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 26 Sep. 2021
• The plan — and its proponent — became an albatross the size of a Buick around the neck of the entire party.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 23 Dec. 2011
• In the middle of the night, an albatross rests on its single, precious egg.
  — Jake Buehler, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 July 2021
• At that point, all the chatter was about the money, and about Sanchez’s albatross contract.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 6 July 2017
• A number of strategists and politicians on both sides of the aisle share this view: The pro-life movement is an albatross around the neck of the GOP.
  — Alexandra Desanctis, National Review, 14 Feb. 2023
• Since she was banded in 1956, the Laysan albatross has logged more than three million flight miles, six times the distance to the moon and back!
  — Richard Stenger, CNN, 10 Feb. 2022
• For more than three decades, the events of Tiananmen … have hung round the leadership like the albatross around the ancient mariner’s neck.
  — The Economist, 20 Aug. 2019
• Now the fund managers must figure out what to do with their albatross.
  — Cynthia Sewell, idahostatesman, 12 June 2017
• How did things get this way, and how did the trillion-dollar albatross come out flying in the end?
  — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2018
• Crush has been within two 100ths of the record before and Luebbe called it almost like the albatross around her neck for a long time.
  — Phillip Steinmetz, The Courier-Journal, 25 Apr. 2021
• The money that this albatross has sucked from the city would be better spent on youth programs to keep kids safe.
  — baltimoresun.com, 9 June 2017
• But her past as an adult film performer has been an albatross around her neck.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
• The highlight in Sunday’s final round was an albatross 2 on the par 5 fifth hole.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2023
• His approach from 208 yards took one hop on the green then found the bottom of the cup for just the second albatross in the hole's history.
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 13 May 2018
• In 1978, George Burns became the first golfer with an albatross at Colonial.
  — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 24 May 2018
• The McQueen show has become a little bit of an albatross in a way, a bit of a millstone around my neck.
  — Eliza Brooke, Vox, 12 Oct. 2018
• When an albatross gets snagged by a hook at sea, Javier hides the bird and secretly sets about restoring it to health.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 9 July 2021
• With 50 yards to go, the Electra bounced hard over a small ridge and pitched out over the gulf, albatross-heavy, spitting ocean spray from her engines.
  — Paula McLain, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2017
• An albatross is bad luck, something the fishermen of the town know, but Hassan, who isn’t one of them, doesn’t.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 30 Sep. 2021
• The club already has one such albatross in Alexis Sanchez.
  — Avi Creditor, SI.com, 15 July 2019
• With virtually no predators, Midway is a haven for many species of seabirds and is home to the largest colony of albatross in the world.
  — Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2019
• The cause of the albatross’s misery was evident: it was caught in a weather balloon.
  — Danielle Beurteaux, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024
• Of the other six birds, two more were Atlantic yellow-nosed albatrosses.
  — Danielle Beurteaux, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024