How to Use grist in a Sentence

grist

noun
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  • 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
  • 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
  • His personal and professional liaisons continue to be grist for the high-tech rumor mill.
    — Reuters, WIRED, 12 Oct. 2003
  • Wojnarowski will provide the grist for a never-ending mill of debate shows, news programs, and interview segments.
    — Nick Greene, Slate Magazine, 30 June 2017
  • The degree to which President Trump can follow through on the promise is now grist for the pundits and political junkies.
    — Tom Tancredo, The Denver Post, 16 Jan. 2017
  • And who knows what further grist for distrust might emerge from Tillerson’s answers to the committee’s 1,000 questions?
    — Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, 17 Jan. 2017
  • Regardless, the current study is likely to provide more grist for pro-wolf groups who have criticized wildlife management agencies for basing decisions on politics rather than science.
    — National Geographic, 11 May 2016
  • Regardless, the current study is likely to provide more grist for pro-wolf groups who have criticized wildlife management agencies for basing decisions on politics rather than science.
    — National Geographic, 11 May 2016
  • Canadian hospitality doesn’t seem like grist for drama, but this gem of a musical, by Irene Sankoff and David Hein, makes kindness sing and soar.
    — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • In the aftermath, Mr. Simpson and the case became the grist for television specials, films and more than 30 books, many by participants who made millions.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • President Biden’s apparent desire to calibrate the response and avoid a wider conflict with Iran offered plenty of grist for Trump’s spinning mill.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024

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