Sentence examples for millstone in from inspiring English sources

Their three children, who fished the Millstone in summer and skated on it in the winter, are all grown.

Her husband had bequeathed her a giant millstone in the form of a no-biography clause in his will.

"You have this millstone in the form of $47 billion in mortgages that don't fit in the discount brokerage business," he said.

His love for the outdoors merged with his interest in history one day in the spring of 2002 when he spotted a large piece of a millstone in Chapman Falls in the park.

"Dead Skunk", with its chorus, "Dead skunk in the middle of the road/ Stinking to high heaven", secured Wainwright his sole Top 20 hit, but the roadkill anthem became a millstone "in that people expected, and in some cases demanded, that I sing it".

The Radiation and Public Health Project of Manhattan said that the study provided evidence that Suffolk residents had been harmed by airborne emissions from nuclear power plants, including Indian Point in upstate New York, Millstone in Waterford, Conn., and Oyster Creek near Toms River, N.J., as well as by research reactors at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton.

It could also absorb plants that are shut and awaiting decommissioning, like Indian Point 1 in Buchanan, N.Y.; Millstone 1 in Waterford, Conn.; and Three Mile Island 2, near Harrisburg, Pa., the site of the 1979 accident.

The last two to be retired was the Zion plant north of Chicago, built by Exelon's predecessor, Commonwealth Edison, and Millstone I, in Waterford, Conn., both in 1998.

Money is accumulating too slowly at 42 plants, including some shut for years like Indian Point 1, in Buchanan, N.Y., and Millstone 1, in Waterford, Conn., the report said.

The Bush tax cuts are supposed to sunset in 2010 and, says Millstone, Democrats in Congress would like to them go, but they'll only be able to do so if the economy has recovered.

His replacement at Elm, Luke Venner, is a formidable choice, with his own style but one that has always characterized the restaurant's kitchen, sharply focused on the seasons and the provender available, particularly if it's from New England land and waters, with purveyors like Millstone Farms in Wilton and Smith's Acres in Niantic, CT, listed on the menu.