A sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
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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 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.
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 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.
6 The built-in audio jack is also a godsend if you love music.
7 This is truly a godsend , and I am most grateful for it.
8 It will be a godsend for him to meet some decent people.
9 She had two rooms vacant, and a new lodger was a godsend .
10 I keep busy with my camera. Peter's gift had been a godsend .
11 A clerk who wrote French, German and Italian fluently was a godsend .
12 I knew you wouldn't care-menare a godsend in New England towns.
13 To Clemens at this time, this offer came as a perfect godsend .
14 Rose's incursion into her life must have been a godsend to her.
15 To the women of Tom Buffum's household, a visitor was a godsend .
16 Vladimir Putin's unexpected ascent to power in 2000 was, for many, a godsend .
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