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