How to Use mill in a Sentence
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Two men fought for jobs in a mill.
—Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
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Two men fought over jobs in a mill.
—Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 20 May 2026
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How did cider mills get started?
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 23 Aug. 2025
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The map shows both farm markets and cider mills.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 23 Aug. 2025
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There are many cider mills across Michigan.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 23 Aug. 2025
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But for right now, at least, the lights are on and the mill is humming.
—Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
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Here's what to know about cider mills in Michigan.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 23 Aug. 2025
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This one is on a hill overlooking an old mill city.
—Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
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The mill has supplied feed to farmers across the area.
—John Lauritsen, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
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That's when a fire destroyed the mill Burg owned with his wife.
—John Lauritsen, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
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Press hot potato flesh through a ricer or food mill into a large bowl.
—Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2025
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Bump City has had a tasting room at the mill for more than a decade.
—Ashley Sharp, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2026
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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
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At Slater’s mill, even children worked six days a week and twelve hours a day.
—Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
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The damage was localized to the hot mill area of the plant.
—Jamie L. Lareau, Freep.com, 7 Oct. 2025
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This mill was the first step in the mass production of paper.
—Justin Klawans, TheWeek, 23 Apr. 2026
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The latest celebs to fall prey to the romance rumor mill?
—Sara Moniuszko, USA Today, 25 June 2026
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The problem is that mines and mills cannot run on strategic logic alone.
—Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
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These are a far cry from your average run of the mill frozen pizzas.
—Claudia Alarcón, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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This isn’t the first time the princess has visited a textile mill.
—Daisy Jones, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2026
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Many of them were immigrants who lived and worked in the mill village.
—Jack Perry, The Providence Journal, 19 Jan. 2026
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Ayn al-‘Asal was five meters wide by your father’s mill.
—Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
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On the first day of the revolt, the rebels burned down sixteen sugar mills.
—Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
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The mill was built in 1884 but has been abandoned for years.
—Penny Kmitt, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
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No one was at the mill at the time of the fire and no injuries were reported.
—Riley Moser, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
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As the mill changed hands over the decades, Bogalusa's fortunes slid.
—Fred Clasen-Kelly, NPR, 19 Aug. 2025
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While Randy worked at a steel mill, his mother ran a daycare at their house.
—Kaitlin Stevens, Peoplemag, 27 Jan. 2024
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Multiply by the local levy or mill rate.
—Allison Palmer updated February 20, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2026
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He was charged with stealing a truck and other tools from a cedar mill in Weippe.
—Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 25 Mar. 2024
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Matcha is a form of green tea in which young tea leaves have been ground to a powder using a stone mill.
—Rebecca Corbett, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2025
- The crowd was milling outside the exit.
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The bear stopped and milled around.
—William D. Brown, Outdoor Life, 13 Nov. 2025
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Dozens of people were milling about.
—Vanessa Romo, NPR, 14 Jan. 2026
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Players from both teams milled around the ice.
—Peter Baugh, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2026
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For those who has spent years milling through up fronts, the scene hit hard.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 18 May 2026
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By then, six armed agents were milling about the parking lot.
—Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026
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Extra fun to mill the grains myself.
—Sarah Sotoodeh, FOXNews.com, 1 Mar. 2026
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Knots of pilgrims and tourists milling about outside drew near.
—Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
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Most of the others were milling about and stretching.
—Mitch Light, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
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All those giant creatures milling about.
—Noah Lederman, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2026
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All of the bagels are made with organic wheat milled in Utah.
—Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
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Just mill the grains together with a flour mill or a clean coffee grinder.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2023
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Olive oil is a versatile oil that’s made by pressing and milling olives.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 6 Oct. 2025
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With so many actors milling around, not everyone gets enough to do.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Dec. 2025
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In the square, 20 locals mill about, waiting for a bread truck.
—Elena Clavarino, Air Mail, 11 Oct. 2025
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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
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All the while, Buell patrons mill about, too, making their noisy way to seats.
—Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2024
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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
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Some cats milled about, unfazed by the umpteenth tremor to hit this picturesque seaside town.
—Eric Sylvers, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
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Lathes, cutters, and milling equipment line the shop floor.
—Mark Dent, HubSpot, 1 June 2026
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Low-slung seats are leather, while the steering wheel and dash controls are milled aluminum.
—New Atlas, 28 Jan. 2026
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If larger creatures were milling around the ecosystem, they would have been buried alive as well.
—Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 10 May 2023
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Commercial oat flour is made by milling oat groats, which are oat berries with their husks removed.
—Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 15 Mar. 2024
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Players milled about, waiting for an update.
—Zack Pierce, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
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More civilians were seen milling out on the streets of Caracas today.
—Michael Rios, CNN Money, 6 Jan. 2026
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The exact design and cutouts are then milled like in the previous process.
—Mark Gurman, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023
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Suzuki was received as a celebrity by ex-Moonies milling around on the grass.
—E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
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Back by the lake, little huddles of people mill about, like small bison.
—Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
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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
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While the boys blew up our air mattresses, the horses milled around at the edge of the river.
—Dolores Brown, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026
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