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Examples of gold mine in a Sentence
The library is a gold mine of information.
the estate sale promises to be a gold mine for antique dealers
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Cole captured the lives of servants who were paid $15 a month, and the misery of life in the diamond, platinum, iron, and gold mines that were the source of South Africa’s wealth (and the bulwark of the regime’s power).
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 May 2024
The look of the restaurant’s speakeasy evokes the black and gold hues of Incan gold mines.
—Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
In the Central African Republic, Russian Wagner Group mercenaries were running a brewery and controlled the country’s largest gold mine, though the government was flirting with an American security firm to help run the state.
—Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
This creates a gold mine of demand more glittering than the trio could ever have imagined.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 1 May 2024
While Shakespeare, Dickens and Austen have been public-domain gold mines at various times, other properties have proven more problematic.
—Andrew Dalton, Quartz, 16 Apr. 2024
And while Shakespeare, Dickens and Austen have been public-domain gold mines at various times, other properties have proven more problematic.
—Andrew Dalton, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2024
To these speculators, Hollywood looked like a gold mine: the studios and entertainment corporations were ripe with redundancies and inefficiencies to be axed—costs to be cut, parts to be sold, profits to be diverted to shareholders, executives, and new, often unrelated ventures.
—Daniel Bessner, Harper's Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
This region reached its peak in the 16th century during the discoveries of silver and gold mines which explains the presence of colonizers in this area.
—Shivani Vora, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 May 2024
The look of the restaurant’s speakeasy evokes the black and gold hues of Incan gold mines.
—Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
In the Central African Republic, Russian Wagner Group mercenaries were running a brewery and controlled the country’s largest gold mine, though the government was flirting with an American security firm to help run the state.
—Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
This creates a gold mine of demand more glittering than the trio could ever have imagined.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 1 May 2024
While Shakespeare, Dickens and Austen have been public-domain gold mines at various times, other properties have proven more problematic.
—Andrew Dalton, Quartz, 16 Apr. 2024
And while Shakespeare, Dickens and Austen have been public-domain gold mines at various times, other properties have proven more problematic.
—Andrew Dalton, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2024
To these speculators, Hollywood looked like a gold mine: the studios and entertainment corporations were ripe with redundancies and inefficiencies to be axed—costs to be cut, parts to be sold, profits to be diverted to shareholders, executives, and new, often unrelated ventures.
—Daniel Bessner, Harper's Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
This region reached its peak in the 16th century during the discoveries of silver and gold mines which explains the presence of colonizers in this area.
—Shivani Vora, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
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“Gold mine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gold%20mine. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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