NOUN
- a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field
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a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line
How To Use gold rush In A Sentence
- In that span, astronomers have reported more than 500 planets orbiting nearby stars, a gold rush sparked by the 1995 discovery of a large planet orbiting the star 51 Pegasi, some 51 light years away, by members of a Swiss team. Researchers question discovery of 'Goldilocks' planet
- The long avenue is still lined with the iron-laced pubs of the gold rush days, with their wooden verandahs.
- So for example, where we found the buried hulk of the Gold Rush storeship General Harrison, or when we encounter a prehistoric site with human burials, like CA-SFR-114, there's no doubt that the client is going to curse the day he ever met me. Digging San Francisco
- Other exhibits focus on placer and lode deposits, major gold rushes, and uses of gold through the centuries.
- When you see the signpost indicating Lyell it is difficult to believe that this isolated area once was the site of a gold rush.
- • Northern Ontario: Premier Dalton McGuinty made a vague pledge on Tuesday that the budget would introduce relief for hard-hit northern residents and businesses over and above the help being earmarked for the Ring of Fire, a massive deposit of chromite, which is used in the manufacture of stainless steel, that the government hopes will spark another Gold Rush in the north. Thestar.com - Home Page
- In the early 19th century, fur traders wiped out its seals; during the Gold Rush, a lucrative and larcenous trade in seabird eggs killed millions of common murres.
- The most important of these, the hulk of the Gold Rush-era storeship General Harrison, was situated at the northwest corner of Clay and Battery streets, in the heart of the city's present-day Financial District. Digging San Francisco
- Over the winter, I sold our motorhome, trailer, and one of our two race cars, then purchased our current rig, a Kodiak hauler and 49-foot two-car Gold Rush trailer.
- Meanwhile in Melbourne we welcomed the squattocracy and had a Gold Rush then lots of handsome Southern Europeans so our gene pool is a lot prettier. Tequila Sunrise
