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Meanings of windfall in English
Synonyms
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
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
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.
Usage of windfall in English
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.
6
Iran is set to reap an economic windfall once sanctions are lifted.
7
The four prisoners, on the other hand, represented a very considerable windfall.
8
The recommended offer will not carry any obvious windfall to Vega's executives.
9
What to watch: -Discontent over the impact of the oil windfall.
10
Inexplicably, he returned to work at Eskom after landing this enormous windfall.
11
If I can authenticate this, it's going to be a good windfall.
12
Ten minutes later they stood in the door of the windfall cavern.
13
The baron had a presentiment of the opportunity afforded by this windfall.
14
Some evidence suggests people actually end up worse off after a windfall.
15
Farther and farther Ba-ree ventured from the windfall, always following the creek.
16
Far below, hadals crouching around their human windfall glanced up at him.
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Windfall through the time
Windfall across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common