How to Use grist in a Sentence

grist

noun

• Leaks of this sort are grist for the mill of a free press.
  — Michael Walzer, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2018
• Souvenirs flew off the shelves in the gift shop, housed in a grist mill built in 1734.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• It was founded in 1772 at the site of a grist mill and sits along the banks of the Tiber and Patapsco rivers.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 30 May 2018
• Failure to do so will just provide more grist to the mills of the critics.
  — Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• The result of the leak was more grist for the pseudo-scandal Nunes has been fanning.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Mar. 2018
• Green, on the other hand, lives for the mess and muck, the hard words and harder forearms that make up the grist of an NBA game.
  — Robert O'Connell, The Atlantic, 31 May 2017
• The block didn’t budge: more grist for the argument against dragging.
  — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
• Patrons still take a bridge over water to get in the former grist mill.
  — Kathy Flanigan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2018
• All but two of the river’s 12 dams, most of them put in place for grist mills, have been taken out of the river.
  — Liz Bowie, baltimoresun.com, 17 May 2018
• The election of Donald Trump was to provide grist for the next few messages.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2023
• Ball farmed the area around his house with his five daughters and also ran a grist mill on Four Mile Run.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2020
• The brewer then soaks the grist in a vat of hot water called the mash tun, which converts the starch into sugar.
  — John Perritano, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2013
• Human frailties have always been the grist for his mill.
  — Hamilton Cain, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2022
• The property has a large year round spring that feeds a trout farm, two lakes, a grist mill and the famous Marble Falls.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 8 Dec. 2019
• Tours of the main house, blacksmith shop and functioning grist mill offer a step into the past.
  — Carroll County Times, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 30 July 2021
• Pleasant Gap was once a town surrounding a grist mill just a few miles from the mining town of Rock Run.
  — AL.com, 28 July 2017
• The film stars Zack Gottsagen, a 35-year-old actor who has Down syndrome, and it’s Gottsagen’s own life that is grist for the story.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• Dozens of Kaggle members have used them as grist for coding projects.
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 12 July 2017
• Bruceville offered water from Big Pipe Creek and supplies would have been available from the farm and grist mill.
  — John Laycock, Baltimore Sun, 11 May 2024
• In the Covid pandemic, both sides of the debate have found powerful grist.
  — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• Some of the Gramercy setlists had more grist for casual fans than others.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
• Voice memos from family members and friends and friends-of-friends added more grist to the rumor mill.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 14 May 2023
• The radicals of the prewar years are good grist for inspiring yarns.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
• The most obvious story to feed into the late-night grist mill this week was George Santos.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2023
• The predictable teeth-gnashing about the state of the game was given more grist with tepid television ratings.
  — New York Times, 10 Jan. 2022
• And so blind items are planted, the gossip mill gets its grist, and resentment begins to build on both sides.
  — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Feb. 2017
• For older people who came to the rally, the fragility of London’s bridges is more than just grist for a nursery rhyme.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2020
• The saga of Kawhi Leonard continues to provide grist for the national rumor mill.
  — Jeff McDonald, Houston Chronicle, 23 Jan. 2018
• Over the next two decades, Ford added more buildings, including the one-room schoolhouse, the chapel still popular for weddings, and the grist mill.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2019
• The property also contains an old grist mill and a tiny blacksmith’s shop.
  — Michelle Matthews | [e-mail], al, 10 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024