How to Use mill in a Sentence

mill

1 of 2 verb

• The crowd was milling outside the exit.
• All of the bagels are made with organic wheat milled in Utah.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
• They’ve been milled or pressed to create items that are used to prepare the foods in Group 1.
  — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 13 July 2023
• Right now on the House floor, Democrats are writing their votes down by hand and milling around in the chamber.
  — WSJ, 4 Oct. 2023
• Over the next 20 minutes, officers milled around the area as Nichols slouched over by the car.
  — Gina Butkovich, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
• All the while, Buell patrons mill about, too, making their noisy way to seats.
  — Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2024
• Crews will mill off the top part of the road surface and put down a smoother driving surface.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2023
• Use a dado blade in your table saw to mill the panel grooves in the edges of the back rails and mullions [6].
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2020
• The other three snoozed or milled around the bays relaxing.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
• Knots of pilgrims and tourists milling about outside drew near.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• A number of spectators milled around in the street as the car screeched in circles around them.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
• Just mill the grains together with a flour mill or a clean coffee grinder.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2023
• The exact design and cutouts are then milled like in the previous process.
  — Mark Gurman, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023
• The show was supposed to begin at five, but at twenty past guests were still milling about.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• Some cats milled about, unfazed by the umpteenth tremor to hit this picturesque seaside town.
  — Eric Sylvers, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
• Attendees milled about, danced to music and set up chairs in front of the riverfront to view the fireworks.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2023
• Officials milled around the dais while Williams continued to rail against the city.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2023
• If larger creatures were milling around the ecosystem, they would have been buried alive as well.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 10 May 2023
• The trouble won’t come when the last of Earth’s phosphorus-​rich rock reserves have been mined, milled and spilled into our waters.
  — Dan Egan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2023
• First responders milled about the house in Calvert County, Md.
  — Amy Brittain, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• As people mill about the room, Otieno can be seen lying almost face down on his right side.
  — Bill Atkinson, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
• The actors and their audience didn’t have much time to mill around: curfew was at eleven.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2023
• Of course, Evans slammed the trunk and locked me in there for three minutes while everyone milled about outside and had a good laugh.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Apr. 2023
• DeSantis skipped the retreat, though some of his donors and allies milled about in the lobby of the swanky hotel.
  — Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2023
• But late last week, there was no cast or crew milling about Gate C34, which still advertised an on-time flight to New York.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
• Guests are arriving in greater numbers, clustering by the bar and milling about the tent.
  — Jean Garnett, The New Yorker, 10 July 2023
• Outside the courthouse, a crowd of about 100 people milled around under the thin tree canopy of Collect Pond Park.
  — Simmone Shah, TIME, 15 Apr. 2024
• Back by the lake, little huddles of people mill about, like small bison.
  — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
• Most of Jennie’s new neighbors milled about speechless with blank stares.
  — AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2023
• A couple of thousand people milled around downtown Jasper and Bradley Park on Monday as the moon began crossing the path of the sun.
  — Bill Bowden, arkansasonline.com, 8 Apr. 2024

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mill

2 of 2 noun

• Remove half the soup from the pan and either blend it or pass it through a food mill.
  — Charlotte Druckman / Photographs By Andrea Wyner For The Wall Street Journal , WSJ, 23 Mar. 2023
• Chief among these are new mills for the GTS and Turbo variants.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 21 Dec. 2023
• Then, lock the tool into a vise or hold it still with a clamp and move a mill file along the edge of the blade to sharpen.
  — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 May 2023
• At the show’s start, émigrés in the garb of many cultures mill about in a Kafkaesque waiting room.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• He was charged with stealing a truck and other tools from a cedar mill in Weippe.
  — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 25 Mar. 2024
• In a nod to the roots of its mill building, the distillery utilizes a still powered by steam.
  — Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2023
• The families who worked at the mill lived in small homes surrounding the site.
  — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
• Tucked away in the mountains of Washington state, on a five-acre lot, ducks and geese mill about.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
• While Randy worked at a steel mill, his mother ran a daycare at their house.
  — Kaitlin Stevens, Peoplemag, 27 Jan. 2024
• The Goodyear House is a mill house-turned-restaurant nestled in NoDa.
  — Chyna Blackmon, Charlotte Observer, 21 Feb. 2024
• Most recently, a coffee shop opened in the mill’s east end.
  — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
• That’s why these electric mills are perfect for this list.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
• Waste compost from the mill enriches the soil of the surrounding groves.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Nov. 2023
• And the mill is mated to a seven-speed PDK transmission.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2023
• Bill was the manager of a steel mill, and Carole was a schoolteacher.
  — Matthew Rosenberg, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• Steel mills work through the night to churn out red-glowing, heavy beams for infrastructure projects.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
• Son Justin Kehler started at the mill at 19 and recalled working long hours with few weekends off.
  — Judith Prieve, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
• My great-grandfather worked for the railroad, my grandfather for the steel mill.
  — A.w. Davis, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 June 2023
• His father worked in the steel mills, and his mother was a domestic worker.
  — Gene Seymour, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2023
• Flour, too, is running out and most wheat mills have been bombed, according to the United Nations.
  — Ameera Harouda Yousef Masoud, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2023
• The property in question is in the hamlet of Water Mill, which is famous for its arts scene and as the site of the first water mill in New York.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2023
• It was built on the site of the Alice Furnaces iron rolling mill, which began operating in 1880.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 2 Apr. 2023
• The rolling stock on the Bald Knob excursion consists mainly of gondolas once used to carry cut trees to the mill.
  — Mark Orwoll, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023
• Or, for explorers wanting to get away from it all, an old log mill in the mountains could be the ideal retreat.
  — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• Peshtigo was a town of lumber mills, where the white pines from northern forests were turned into wood for Chicago’s use.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• Pulp, paper and paperboard mills were the largest releasers.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
• Such a move may seem run of the mill today, but at the time there were only two turbo cars in production: Porsche's 930 and Buick's Regal.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 2 Apr. 2023
• Lewiston is one of those moody, New England mill towns with a skyline pierced by church spires and brick factory stacks.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
• Box office action The Premier League is often billed as ‘the best league in the world’ and the string of 4-3 results this season only adds further grist to that particular mill.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024
• Cotton threads are woven on a large loom at a mill somewhere in Asia, then shipped to a dye house, then shipped (usually a great distance) to a garment factory somewhere else in Asia.
  — Alden Wicker, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024