How to Use miller in a Sentence

miller

noun

• Of the 19 mills, 16 still have millers who live inside and maneuver the massive sails in the wind.
  — John Marshall, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2017
• Many of these downwinders, miners, and millers have long since passed.
  — CBS News, 8 Oct. 2019
• Millers are now forced to buy from the market for almost 50 percent more.
  — Samuel Gebre, Bloomberg.com, 16 May 2017
• The reader learns, for example, that Nigel the miller gave handsomely to the abbey.
  — The Economist, 8 June 2020
• One of the stranger animals that the bears eat must be army cutworm moths, also known as miller moths.
  — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 25 June 2019
• Wheat millers have the same problem and have warned of possible bread shortages.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
• Back in 1833, two men — a miller and a druggist who grew herbs — decided to make and sell drugs and essential oils.
  — Dallas News, 17 Jan. 2021
• The corn miller cobbled together $4,000 to pay a coyote.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 16 June 2017
• Rather than having to discover the imp’s name, the miller’s daughter becomes the queen by making him forget it.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 11 Dec. 2017
• Fred, the oldest of the doctor’s three sons, became a miller and was never of much consequence within the ambitious Lewis clan.
  — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2021
• To have that followed kind of in rapid succession by these other millers, like Meuer Farm doing emmer, spelt and einkorn.
  — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2018
• A French cooking term, meuniere (translation: in the manner of a miller’s wife) means dipped in flour (hence the mill connection) and sautéed in butter with lemon juice.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2017
• When Barbara became pregnant, the young Lick approached the miller, Henry Snavely, and asked to marry his daughter.
  — Scott Herhold, The Mercury News, 12 June 2017
• Targeted were teachers, clerks, store keepers, millers and tanners, as well peasants who owned two cows rather than one or whose huts were roofed with tin rather than thatch.
  — Anna Reid, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
• As early as 1799, Joseph Cahoon, a miller from Vermont, visited the area and fell in love with the beautiful countryside.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 7 July 2020
• As a boy he was entranced by stories his grandfather told about his own grandfather George Rice, a gun maker, and even about George’s father, James, a corn miller.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2022
• His unrequited love for the miller’s daughter is his first experience of pain.
  — Jessica Gelt, latimes.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• Unfolding in a classic three-act structure, the story centers on the eponymous girl (voiced by Anaïs Demoustier), the daughter of a miller (Olivier Broche).
  — Alissa Simon, chicagotribune.com, 10 Aug. 2017
• But this fairy tale lets its heroine be both monster and princess, both gold-hoarding Rumpelstiltskin and virtuous miller’s daughter.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 20 July 2018
• Perhaps in another time Alejandro would have been this miller, Kiril thought.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2018
• Unfortunately for his biographer, Rembrandt was the ninth child of a miller, and there was no reason that any note should have been taken of his childhood.
  — Reagan Upshaw, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
• Emolument may indeed be a completely non-pejorative term derived from the Latin word for a miller’s honest fee.
  — Ruth Walker, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2017
• India imposes a duty of 20 percent on sugar exports, which millers are seeking to have abolished.
  — Pratik Parija, Bloomberg.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• India imposes a duty of 20 percent on sugar exports, which millers are seeking to get abolished.
  — Pratik Parija, Bloomberg.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• Petra, a frisky maidservant coming off of a weekend dalliance, turns to the audience and imagines her possible futures, first married to a miller’s son, then to a businessman, then to the Prince of Wales.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2021
• Sometime in the 1950s, the millers and water board members started seeing visitors in sneakers carrying cameras.
  — John Marshall, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2017
• Grateful Bread seeks to answer that challenge daily, training a new generation of bakers and millers in an ancient practice to make American bread great again.
  — Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2017
• The industry and commerce ministry has 65 registered millers that have signed up for its corn-subsidy program, which the government rolled out in December last year and is meant to provide affordable corn-meal.
  — Ray Ndlovu / Bloomberg, Time, 31 Jan. 2020
• In addition to ovarian cancer, talc has been linked with an increase in lung cancer for talc millers and miners, who may inhale talc on the job, according to the American Cancer Society.
  — refinery29.com, 13 July 2018
• White cyclamen appear to flutter above silvery dusty-miller foliage and eucalyptus pods.
  — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 12 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024