How to Use grist in a Sentence

grist

noun
  • Patrons still take a bridge over water to get in the former grist mill.
    — Kathy Flanigan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2018
  • Failure to do so will just provide more grist to the mills of the critics.
    — Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
  • His missives inevitably become grist for that evening’s late-night shows.
    — Steven Andreasen, Twin Cities, 7 June 2026
  • Dozens of Kaggle members have used them as grist for coding projects.
    — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 12 July 2017
  • 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
  • By 1902, there were steam cotton and grist mills as well as a lumber mill.
    — arkansasonline.com, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Rivera’s enormous shadow and how Kahlo came to eclipse it, further grist for the mill.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Some of the Gramercy setlists had more grist for casual fans than others.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
  • 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 result of the leak was more grist for the pseudo-scandal Nunes has been fanning.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The property also contains an old grist mill and a tiny blacksmith’s shop.
    — Michelle Matthews | [email protected], al, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The radicals of the prewar years are good grist for inspiring yarns.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
  • 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 museum’s exhibits tell the story of the grist mill, town, and railroad.
    — Tykesha Spivey Burton, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The grist mill, where townspeople would grind wheat into flour, is closed, with boards across the entryway.
    — Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2025
  • 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 world never ceases to produce grist for discussion.
    — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025
  • In the Covid pandemic, both sides of the debate have found powerful grist.
    — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 16 Oct. 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
  • Therefore, the irrelevant content is grist for the chain-of-thought mill of o1.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • But the subject matter offers plenty of grist for the mill for an interviewer.
    — Thomas Page, CNN Money, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The most obvious story to feed into the late-night grist mill this week was George Santos.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • Instead, these errors have been grist for the mill for those who are making hay of AI while the sun shines on its promise.
    — Sonja Drimmer, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025
  • 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 whisky is sweet and enticing on the nose, with aromas of vanilla fudge, toffee, apricot jam, and a touch of fresh barley grist.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
  • Tonight’s mayoral debate may add more substance to Pratt’s campaign, or grist for his opponents.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026

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