How to Use grist in a Sentence

grist

noun

• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• Oscar telecast ratings were down to record lows this year, but every bit of bad news may become good grist for the PR mill.
  — Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2018
• The spoiled samples, meanwhile, had been meant as grist for future research projects, some not yet even conceived.
  — Boyce Upholt, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2022
• Her later life, too, was grist for this poet of remembrance.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
• All became the grist for her dark satire, laced with wry, aphoristic asides on the human condition.
  — Alan Cowell, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
• Every check-in, every hashtag, every comment is more grist for the mill.
  — USA TODAY, 27 June 2019
• Latin Americans are criminals or grist for the mill in this country.
  — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 27 Mar. 2018
• And while names and addresses may be fairly common grist at this point, IMEI numbers are not.
  — Brian Barrett, Wired, 16 Aug. 2021
• All grist to the mill for those who see French business as the product of its politicians’ dirigiste tendency to shape the private sector in the mould of the public one.
  — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2020
• In the fullness of time, the charging documents will supply grist for a thousand narratives of grift and graft.
  — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2019
• The show impressed critics, provided grist for op-ed columnists and won its share of Emmys and Golden Globes, and a Peabody.
  — John Koblin, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 28 May 2024