Example sentences for: milking

How can you use “milking” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The papers are still milking Bush and the drug thing because they're filling the vacuum that has arisen because you have to cover the GOP front-runner, but he isn't saying anything substantive, let alone controversial.

  • The New York Times punished Bauer's milking of the media by publishing a follow-up story about how he milked the media.

  • McCourt "seems less in control in this book and at times is powerless to keep himself from becoming the stage Irishman, crying in his beer, milking sentiment until it becomes false" (Peter Collier, the Los Angeles Times ). (Click here to read the first chapter.)

  • Suppose, then, that when Starr approached him, Taylor had strung the prosecutor along, not overtly lying, but milking him for information while only pretending to be interested in the job.

  • A NYT front-pager examines Bill Bradley's means of milking his past in professional sports.


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