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.
• Some foreign policy decisions hang like albatrosses around the necks of the states that made them.
  — Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2016
• An albatross mates for life, and Wisdom has survived several mates and reared more than 30 chicks.
  — National Geographic, 28 Apr. 2017
• 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
• Fubo and the court seem to view the big bundle of news and entertainment networks as more of an albatross than a desirable consumer product.
  — Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
• Various ailments have been an albatross on d’Arnaud’s promising career.
  — Seth Berkman, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2016
• However, that device seems to have become an albatross for the artist—because the show pulls from his own life, the well is starting to dry out, leaving little room for fresh concepts.
  — Yohana Desta, VanityFair.com, 1 May 2017
• The WorldView-3 has a viewing power of 30 centimeters, can see through smoke and spot objects as small as a fire hydrant—or an albatross.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 11 May 2017
• Peter Fretwell, a researcher with the British Antarctic Survey, describes how his team conducts an albatross census from space.
  — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 11 May 2017
• Barring an offensive turnaround, the deal is threatening to become an albatross contract for a team trying to climb out of an early-season hole and transition toward the future.
  — Rustin Dodd, kansascity.com, 15 May 2017
• Jimmy Carter is the albatross that awaits any Democratic president who can be shown to have failed through fecklessness or ineffectiveness.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 6 Jan. 2017
• 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
• 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
• Many would have seen the sad sea turtle with a straw embedded deep into its nostril, or the albatross chicks having been fed bottle caps and cigarette lighters by their unknowing parents.
  — New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024