millstone
Example Sentences
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It’s not a milestone so much though, as a millstone.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Yet today government paperwork is an ever-weightier millstone around the public’s neck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
“She’s reduced the price. She can’t shift this property and it’s become a bit of a millstone around her neck.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
But climates shift, and while “invented heritage” can act as a powerful anchor, it can also be a millstone, an obstacle to necessary, large-scale changes.
From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2026
Chariot wheels, water wheels, potter’s wheels, millstone wheels— one can’t imagine Europe or China without them.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
