Definition: 1. Machine that processes materials by grinding or crushing. 2. A factory that produces a particular type of material. 3. The act of grinding to a powder or dust.
Use 'mill' in a sentence:
1. It provides the basis for development and utilization of Foeniculum vulgare Mill.
2. Mills was regimental colonel.
3. He said, "how came I to tumble into the mill?"
4. For as long as anyone can remember, Piedmont's character has been completely bound up with the Westvaco paper mill: its prosperous past and doubtful future.
5. They mill 1,000 tonnes of flour a day in every Australian state.
6. John Van Heusen built a satinet mill about 1832 on the site of the old Knowlson mill.
7. It was James Mill who was the best publicist for utilitarian ideas on government.
8. There is a textile mill round the corner.
9. His father worked shifts in a steel mill.
10. I was just a very average run-of-the-mill kind of student.
11. He sauntered along the river to the mill.
12. Like the Italians and the Irish, most of the colored people migrated to Piedmont at the turn of the 20th century to work at the paper mill, which opened in 1888.
13. We watched the logs floating towards the mill.
14. The main compositions of supercritical CO2 fluid extraction product of Foeniculum vulgare Mill. seeds are anethole and fatty acids.
15. That is what the mill said.
16. After a thorough investigation, many experts now believe that the streak was a run-of-the-mill jet aircraft contrail.
17. The steel mill was dismantled piece by piece.
18. The mill was finally shut down by state safety inspectors.
19. Every night you could hear the whistles of the steel mill.
20. There is, it seems, some bad blood between Mills and the Baldwins.
21. Private intilted air course makes sure the materials in the girding chamber enter into the mill along the inclined plane.
22. Before 1955, most white people were just shadowy presences in our world, vague figures of power like remote bosses at the mill or clerks at the bank.
23. The logs are drifted downstream to the mill.
24. The Hollywood rumour mill is already buzzing about a marriage between Paramount Studios and Caps Cities.
25. He was tall, dark and handsome, like a Mills and Boon hero.
26. One can hardly believe that this paper mill was started from scratch only a few years ago.
27. The paper mill is run by a young man.
28. The women who worked in these mills had begun to agitate for better conditions.
29. The press desperately needs new information, and everything we do is grist for the mill.
30. The Washington rumour mill suggests that the president secured his narrow majority only by promising all sorts of concessions.
31. One mill worker who finally quit complained revealingly about "obedience to the ding-dong of the bell—just as though we are so many living machines".
32. I'd visit a mill and send them photos of myself in a baker's hat and jacket, holding a sign that says 'I want to be your baker'.
33. Cotton cloth is made in a cotton mill.
34. They moved purposefully through the milling crowd.
35. All night long they walked, and it was morning before they reached the mill.
36. The first documented English mill was in the eighth century, but three centuries later about 5,000 were recorded, suggesting that every settlement of any size had its mill.
37. Before sentence was passed, Mr Mills escaped from jail.
38. Raw-steel production by the nation's mills decreased 2.1% last week.
39. They do not have the capacity to mill the grain.
40. We want an estimate of the proportion of oil which the blindfold, mill-turning, unbiased critic can squeeze out of you.
41. He had to weave his way through the milling crowds.
42. The old mill is now little more than a ruin.
43. Political sex scandals are all grist to the mill of the tabloid newspapers.
44. The law prevented the employment of children under ten in the cotton mills.
45. I had to fight my way through the milling crowd.
46. Fans were milling around outside the hotel.
47. There was an old mill that really did grind corn.
48. He met mill hands, miners and farm labourers.
49. Mills have iron pillars all over the place holding up the roof.
50. They milled around the ballroom with video cameras.
51. At first glance, the town is a typical dying mill center.
52. Maurice Murphy, one of the country's leading classical trumpeters, learnt his craft with the Black Dyke Mills band.
53. Sulfur emissions from steel mills become acid rain.
