A sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
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Examples for "boom"
Examples for "boom"
1I just woke up and said 'let me try this.' And boom!
2Its purpose was simple: to create as loud a boom as possible.
3In the boom years, Ireland lost competitiveness relative to its EU neighbours.
4For example, nations like China have seen a boom in car sales.
5Not everyone is welcoming a potential oil boom in the region, however.
1The real nourishment was in the gravy in which the steak swam.
2Our first gravy made this way was good but still too bland.
3Send the fowls to the table with the gravy in a boat.
4Strain the vegetables out of the gravy and pour over the beef.
5Pour the gravy right into the platter with the beans and onions.
1But this year there was a windfall of good new American plays.
2Iran has made windfall gains from high oil prices in recent years.
3The deal also means a huge windfall for the top executives involved.
4Whether it is a windfall for anyone else remains to be seen.
5A company source also downplayed the prospect of any near term windfall.
1Even Islamists publicly welcome the shop bonanza, and say they reject violence.
2Nkandla has beenthe great bonanza for satirists, cartoonists and journalists this year.
3The result has been a bonanza in the crude by rail business.
4It's been a long time since Japanese workers enjoyed such a bonanza.
5The deal is also likely to be a fee bonanza for banks.
1Cal said he'd had her for years and she was a godsend.
2At the time, this new feature was a godsend for savvy users.
3Hand Warmers Rogue says that hand warmers like these are a godsend.
4The Cluthe Truss I purchased of you was a godsend to me.
5This heir of a far-off kingdom was a godsend to the academy.
1Sixty years ago, in the gold rush, there must have been many.
2He talks to Jesse about the liquid gold rush in the Naki.
3The gold rush on electric is all about the international market.
4New Zealand and Canada present the biggest threat to a homegrown gold rush.
5The building once housed horses and stage coaches in the gold rush era.
1At the hospital a Snickers bar had seemed like manna from heaven.
2An unpopular centrist government is manna from heaven for a Sinn Féin opposition.
3If I have manna in my constitution, I can attract manna from heaven.
4They all ate the same spiritual meat, the manna from heaven.
5Might have fooled some unsuspecting tourist into thinking it was manna from heaven.
1When boys at the Edinburgh High School find anything, the boy who crises bunce!
2Bunce was an active coadjutor with the lawyer in this melancholy case.
3No; Mr. Bunce would not admit that he personally required any compensation.
4Admiral Bunce declared himself highly pleased at the success of his blockade.
5Melanie Bunce cut her teeth in journalism at the Otago Daily Times.
6Low, and Chiltern, and his wife;-andthat man Bunce, and his wife.
7The other, of whom there has been casual mention, was Joseph Bunce.
8Only say at once, because Bunce is nagging me day after day.
9Simon Bunce came himself to conduct his new tenants to their abode.
10Here Bunce uttered a kind of groan, very clearly expressive of disagreement.
11I will be back soon, Mrs. Bunce, and you need fear nothing.
12He knew Bunce's address, but had never before been in Newport Street.
13Mr Bunce, as may be imagined, was most strongly opposed to innovation.
14It was by mere chance, as I came away from Bunce's house.
15But he saw no one that he knew before reaching Bunce's abode.
16Susy is gone, George is gone, Libby Hamersley, Ned Bunce, Henry Robinson.