grist to the mill in a sentence

Examples

1. This is the only essay in " Partial Portraits " on a writer of minor significance, and it has provided grist to the mill of biographical speculation.
2. As a novice shopper of 20, I could be and was turned on by a garment of practically any cut, cloth and colour-all was grist to the mill.
3. Thus do they provide grist to the mill for such as Salman Rushdie and V . S . Naipaul, described as " Uncle Tom " writers by Dr Farish A . Noor.
4. However the manner of the defeat in the play-off for the Quarter finals by Leicester Tigers brought further grist to the mill as far as the'Gang of Four'were concerned.
5. Inevitably, EAPs are grist to the mill of management theorists ( there is a long case study in the May-June issue of Harvard Business Review about managing a fictional manic-depressive called Dan ).
6. In 1982, Steven G . Kellman, professor of comparative literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio, brought fresh grist to the mill by publishing a short study, " The Yellow Rose of Texas ".
7. This is grist to the mill not just of current gloomsters, but also of those who argue that the East Asian " miracle " was always a myth, based not on genuine leaps in efficiency but on huge and unsustainable increases in capital and labor inputs.
8. By adding grist to the mill of escalating regional resentment, America's own religious extremists, racists and anti-Muslim bigots within the military have ensured that they and their comrades in arms will continue to pay the awful price in spilled blood . . . the real-world consequence of this intrinsically ingrained religious prejudice and bigotry is the loss of service members'lives and limbs ."
9. SPD chief Sigmar Gabriel accused Angela Merkel of " simply repeating'we will manage it'without doing it as well . " Green party chief Cem �zdemir said that the persistent dispute within the Grand Coalition in Berlin had been " grist to the mill " of the AfD . The Left chairman Bernd Riexinger criticised the CDU and SPD on the grounds that they had " embraced " the positions of the AfD during the election campaign.