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
• Of course, that became a millstone around my neck.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
• That deal proved a millstone that helped push Detroit off the rebuild cliff.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2021
• It was regarded with shame, a millstone around the neck of the Mill City.
  — James Lileks, Star Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021
• The heaviest are stone crosses and millstones, carried in from fields and hung on walls.
  — Joe Grimm, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2017
• Debt is a millstone that weighs down more than three-quarters of Americans.
  — Stacey Abrams, Fortune, 24 Apr. 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
• People will always root for someone trying to shed a millstone.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2017
• 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
• Evanston can't allow the effort once hailed as a milestone to become a millstone.
  — Dahleen Glanton, Star Tribune, 26 Mar. 2021
• The gap between the two millstones could be adjusted, allowing the miller to make fine or more coarse flour.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 14 May 2024
• The production of food from grain took a great leap forward when windmills were built and attached to millstones.
  — Big Think, 22 Aug. 2025
• Instead the health care and tax cuts have been a millstone around Republican necks.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 16 Mar. 2018
• Right now, Biden is a millstone around the neck of local party officials.
  — Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2022
• Most people don’t want to burden anyone else with their personal millstones.
  — Mari Uyehara, Bon Appetit, 8 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Once seen as necessary political grease, it is now recognised as a millstone.
  — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
• 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
• The miller would have poured grain into a hopper, which would funnel the grain between millstones, slowly crushing it into flour.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 14 May 2024
• 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
• Expenses soared for the casino and Millstone fights in part due to ad campaigns that ran on local television.
  — Russell Blair, courant.com, 15 June 2017
• The basalt millstones at the Jebrini mill, for example, date back 200 years.
  — Yotam Ottolenghi, sacbee.com, 13 June 2017
• Americans asked if their country was marching backward, seeking to repeat the mistakes that had been millstones on its progress.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 1 Sep. 2017
• Yates' words about tying a millstone around your neck and throwing yourself into the sea hang in the salty air as Linda dives into the crashing waves.
  — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Mar. 2026
• Costs for exploration and production that had ballooned when oil was above $100 a barrel became millstones.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• He is blinded by the Philistines and harnessed to a huge millstone, forced to drag himself around and around in circles, always moving but unable to go anywhere.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 10 Oct. 2023