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 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 | Mmatthews@al.com, al, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Box office action The Premier League is often billed as ‘the best league in the world’ and the string of 4-3 results this season only adds further grist to that particular mill.
    Ben Morse, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024

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