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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.
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 ...
Still, the library is beginning to seem less of an albatross.
"If the costs become too high for the Russians … this could become an albatross around his neck in March."
"Free me from that albatross around my neck."