albatross

When the opportunity arose to analyze flight data from albatrosses — birds that fly freely over the open ocean in search of food — he gratefully took it.

Note to Sting: An “albatross” in this context is more like “tens of thousands of dollars of student loan debt.”

The deal reached to end the shutdown did nothing to address the albatross of unpredictability.

It was tough when I was younger; it was like an albatross on my back but I just found a way to navigate it.

But the Ryan budget could become an albatross in the negotiations over the fiscal cliff.

Age has become the albatross hanging on the neck of a generation of would-be mothers.

“No, they are not,” said Jack; and he took them out of his pockets, and laid them down in a row before the albatross.

The Albatross is peculiar to the south as the gull to the north.

Knowing that the Albatross would beat her to Sydney, the captain of the Albatross had undertaken to look up the dog.

The crew of the Albatross performed all these different acts of duty with silence and alacrity.

I dreamed all that night of the man "that shot the albatross."