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Example sentences for: albatross

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My personal albatross is the couplet “Eight ever/Nine never” which has to do with taking a fitnesse in bridge, and how many cards my side has in the suit; to my partners' distress, I forget the finesse--against the king, or against the queen--to which the rule applies.
"Free me from that albatross around my neck."
On Face the Nation , political consultant Ralph Reed went further, calling the scandal Al Gore's "albatross" because "he acted as an advocate for a president who 73 percent of the American people believe committed perjury and only 24 percent think is honest and trustworthy."
"If the costs become too high for the Russians … this could become an albatross around his neck in March."
Still, the library is beginning to seem less of an albatross.