How to Use albatross in a Sentence

albatross

noun

• Fame has become an albatross around her neck.
• Fame has become an albatross that prevents her from leading a normal and happy life.
• The country's vast public debt remains an albatross around its neck.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2018
• This name Mandela is an albatross around the necks of my family.
  — Eli Meixler, Time, 3 Apr. 2018
• These models bear the same resemblance to the brain and the neuron as my bicycle does to an albatross.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2018
• That speaks to the albatross hanging around the island’s neck: the uncertainty over its status.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• In other words, a monthly payment to ordinary retirees is viewed as an albatross, weighing us down.
  — Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 1 Mar. 2018
• At that time, the Huskies wouldn't even consider scheduling an albatross like Auburn.
  — James Crepea, AL.com, 23 Dec. 2017
• The albatross, on the other hand, can fly long distances, making it a more efficient hunter in an ocean with fewer and fewer choices of cuisine.
  — Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2018
• In a perfect world, the Magic would start by trading Bismack Biyombo and his albatross contract.
  — David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• Alzheimer’s has long been one of the heaviest therapeutic albatrosses slung round drug developers’ necks.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2018
• These arduous and increasingly costly requirements would be an albatross.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• On the golf course, the albatross is the rarest of birds.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 June 2022
• And like the ancient mariner who shot the albatross, we are compelled to tell the tale.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 19 July 2023
• The weight of present times drapes over the shoulders, like the albatross of ancient mariner lore.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2021
• The biggest albatross is not being seen for my own work a large part of the time.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2023
• My cabbage steals sun from my mint; the squash has the wingspan of an albatross.
  — Matt Bean, Sunset Magazine, 12 June 2020
• Is this the albatross that Joe alluded to in episode 1?
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 26 Sep. 2021
• In the middle of the night, an albatross rests on its single, precious egg.
  — Jake Buehler, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 July 2021
• A number of strategists and politicians on both sides of the aisle share this view: The pro-life movement is an albatross around the neck of the GOP.
  — Alexandra Desanctis, National Review, 14 Feb. 2023
• Since she was banded in 1956, the Laysan albatross has logged more than three million flight miles, six times the distance to the moon and back!
  — Richard Stenger, CNN, 10 Feb. 2022
• For more than three decades, the events of Tiananmen … have hung round the leadership like the albatross around the ancient mariner’s neck.
  — The Economist, 20 Aug. 2019
• How did things get this way, and how did the trillion-dollar albatross come out flying in the end?
  — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2018
• Crush has been within two 100ths of the record before and Luebbe called it almost like the albatross around her neck for a long time.
  — Phillip Steinmetz, The Courier-Journal, 25 Apr. 2021
• But her past as an adult film performer has been an albatross around her neck.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
• The highlight in Sunday’s final round was an albatross 2 on the par 5 fifth hole.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2023
• His approach from 208 yards took one hop on the green then found the bottom of the cup for just the second albatross in the hole's history.
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 13 May 2018
• In 1978, George Burns became the first golfer with an albatross at Colonial.
  — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 24 May 2018
• These include efforts to cull mice in favor of albatrosses, rats in favor of puffins, and pythons in favor of bobcats.
  — The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
• When that lift becomes an albatross, however, something has to change.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2024

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024