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 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 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 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.
6 The bank was built in 1875, during the gold rush years.
7 Come on out to the latest gold rush and find out.
8 Mark Tran looked at the gold rush in Uganda's Karamoja region.
9 It was in August, 1849, that the first gold rush began.
10 The shale boom towns suddenly resembled their California counterparts after the gold rush .
11 That's the way men think when they're in the gold rush .
12 This gold rush is going to be big-thedays of '49 over again.
13 Granite & quartz country, once gold rush , now cattle tread amongst
14 Number one, this is a gold rush -death is not a deterrent.
15 I hope British Handi-style apps developers will join, or maybe lead, the gold rush .
16 Perhaps he wanted to get rich, but the gold rush was five years off.
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