Collocations for "milling"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "milling" in context.
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mill
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [lumber, cotton, saw, flour, paper] mill
- at the [old, local] mill
- buy a [salt, pepper, coffee] mill (for the kitchen)
- grind [salt] in a mill
- [thousands] [were employed, used to work] at the mill
- [thousands] [were laid off, lost their jobs] when the mill closed
- opened a new mill (in)
- [crushed, ground, processed] in the ore mill
- figurative: fed [into, through] the opinion mill
- figurative: according to the rumor mill
- idiom: has been through the mill with [three] [husbands, divorces]
- the mill [workers, staff, personnel]
- a [northern, southern] mill town
'milling' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):