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Example sentences for: albatross

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Still, the library is beginning to seem less of an albatross.
Second, (in the entry for albatross ), Alcatraz ought to have been identified as the “former” prison-island (it is still an island, of course), and the generalization that ail is “virtually obsolete except in the metaphorical use of its present participial adjective ailing ...
"If the costs become too high for the Russians … this could become an albatross around his neck in March."
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."
"Free me from that albatross around my neck."