How to Use millstone in a Sentence

millstone

noun

• The scandal has been a millstone around her neck.
• College loans can quickly become a millstone for students.
• The scandal has become a political millstone.
• That millstone will hang from his neck along with all the medals.
  — Brian Straus, SI.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• The price: a fifth of whatever the millstones spat out.
  — Darryl Levings, kansascity, 18 July 2017
• It was regarded with shame, a millstone around the neck of the Mill City.
  — James Lileks, Star Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021
• That deal proved a millstone that helped push Detroit off the rebuild cliff.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2021
• Killing it, the mariner severs himself from the source of his being; the bird’s body is hung around his neck like a millstone.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 13 May 2020
• A hefty Indonesian millstone near the entry sets the scale.
  — Valerie Easton, The Seattle Times, 12 Apr. 2017
• The need to do six Dior collections a year was seen as a millstone around the neck of creativity.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2016
• In 2012, the Left hung Todd Akin around Republican necks like a millstone.
  — David French, National Review, 11 Dec. 2017
• The heaviest are stone crosses and millstones, carried in from fields and hung on walls.
  — Joe Grimm, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2017
• This is the millstone of the Electoral College, but there is a way to shed it: Choose the map that looks most winnable and is closest to 270 electoral votes and go for broke.
  — Time, 17 Sep. 2019
• 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
• The millstone is inflation, which has tempered sharply from its peak last year but remains above the norm.
  — Reid J. Epstein, New York Times, 29 June 2023
• Debt is a millstone that weighs down more than three-quarters of Americans.
  — Stacey Abrams, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2018
• Instead the health care and tax cuts have been a millstone around Republican necks.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 16 Mar. 2018
• The basalt millstones at the Jebrini mill, for example, date back 200 years.
  — Yotam Ottolenghi, sacbee.com, 13 June 2017
• By the time Hosmer and Green headed to the clubhouse, Lauer was back on the dugout bench, watching the bulk of another game at the venue that is a millstone around his neck.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2019
• Right now, Biden is a millstone around the neck of local party officials.
  — Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2022
• She is allowed a big scene near the end, which only underscores the fact that she has been employed to that point largely as a millstone.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2020
• Evanston can't allow the effort once hailed as a milestone to become a millstone.
  — Dahleen Glanton, Star Tribune, 26 Mar. 2021
• The millstones were for grain; the crosses are said to be not gravestones but border markers or reverence stones.
  — Joe Grimm, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2017
• Yet those same high prices can be a political millstone.
  — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2021
• The film moves in loose accordance with the timeline of Woolf’s novel, and the Orlandos are costumed in millstone collars.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2023
• With some quarters seeing the 2008 election less as a promise than as a threat, Obama’s achievement proves to be both a milestone and a millstone.
  — Kevin Young, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
• People will always root for someone trying to shed a millstone.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2017
• Much of Geller’s work lies underfoot, in tumbled bluestone pavers and pathways, Asian millstones and a spacious stone-slab patio off the kitchen.
  — Valerie Easton, The Seattle Times, 12 Apr. 2017
• But over time, the weight of his masterpiece’s brilliance and his celebrity as a persona writer became a millstone — that and the years of alcohol and drug use that wreaked havoc on his body.
  — Billy Witz Sinna Nasseri, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024
• Weighing less than a pound and about the size of a standard book, these binoculars can easily slip into your day bag or glove compartment and won’t be a millstone around your neck.
  — Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Oct 2024