How to Use miller in a Sentence

miller

noun
  • Many of these downwinders, miners, and millers have long since passed.
    — CBS News, 8 Oct. 2019
  • But Appa didn’t like the sound of the millers hitting the lights at night.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Wheat millers have the same problem and have warned of possible bread shortages.
    — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Millers are now forced to buy from the market for almost 50 percent more.
    — Samuel Gebre, Bloomberg.com, 16 May 2017
  • One of the stranger animals that the bears eat must be army cutworm moths, also known as miller moths.
    — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 25 June 2019
  • But then the days warmed again and an infestation of millers descended.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The reader learns, for example, that Nigel the miller gave handsomely to the abbey.
    — The Economist, 8 June 2020
  • Of the 19 mills, 16 still have millers who live inside and maneuver the massive sails in the wind.
    — John Marshall, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2017
  • His unrequited love for the miller’s daughter is his first experience of pain.
    — Jessica Gelt, latimes.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • By morning, the bubbles would long have gone flat and the little bodies of the millers would be floating in the water, their wings soaked and black.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Targeted were teachers, clerks, store keepers, millers and tanners, as well peasants who owned two cows rather than one or whose huts were roofed with tin rather than thatch.
    — Anna Reid, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Back in 1833, two men — a miller and a druggist who grew herbs — decided to make and sell drugs and essential oils.
    — Dallas News, 17 Jan. 2021
  • Perhaps in another time Alejandro would have been this miller, Kiril thought.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2018
  • To have that followed kind of in rapid succession by these other millers, like Meuer Farm doing emmer, spelt and einkorn.
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2018
  • But this fairy tale lets its heroine be both monster and princess, both gold-hoarding Rumpelstiltskin and virtuous miller’s daughter.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 20 July 2018
  • Fred, the oldest of the doctor’s three sons, became a miller and was never of much consequence within the ambitious Lewis clan.
    — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2021
  • White cyclamen appear to flutter above silvery dusty-miller foliage and eucalyptus pods.
    — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 12 Feb. 2020
  • India imposes a duty of 20 percent on sugar exports, which millers are seeking to get abolished.
    — Pratik Parija, Bloomberg.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • India imposes a duty of 20 percent on sugar exports, which millers are seeking to have abolished.
    — Pratik Parija, Bloomberg.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The son of a prosperous miller, he was rooted in Suffolk, and was a conscientious son who married well and locally.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Emolument may indeed be a completely non-pejorative term derived from the Latin word for a miller’s honest fee.
    — Ruth Walker, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2017
  • Unfortunately for his biographer, Rembrandt was the ninth child of a miller, and there was no reason that any note should have been taken of his childhood.
    — Reagan Upshaw, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Gumede said these cheap imports hit local millers hard, pointing out that Tongaat took a $36 million loss last year due to a wave of Brazilian imports.
    — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 3 July 2026
  • Nigeria’s import restrictions benefit farmers and millers and seem to be encouraging more planting.
    — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Participants at the event will have the opportunity to learn more about the site and how to get involved as a volunteer miller for the upcoming season, officials said.
    — Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
  • When Barbara became pregnant, the young Lick approached the miller, Henry Snavely, and asked to marry his daughter.
    — Scott Herhold, The Mercury News, 12 June 2017
  • Grateful Bread seeks to answer that challenge daily, training a new generation of bakers and millers in an ancient practice to make American bread great again.
    — Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2017
  • As a boy he was entranced by stories his grandfather told about his own grandfather George Rice, a gun maker, and even about George’s father, James, a corn miller.
    — Alex Traub, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Sometime in the 1950s, the millers and water board members started seeing visitors in sneakers carrying cameras.
    — John Marshall, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2017
  • This interest is fueling a burgeoning market for local grain, creating new partnerships between farmers, millers, and bakers.
    — Aliza Abarbanel, Bon Appetit, 5 Oct. 2017

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