[
US
/ˈɡoʊɫdˌfiɫdz/
]
[ UK /ɡˈəʊldfiːldz/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈəʊldfiːldz/ ]
NOUN
- small slender woolly annual with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; often cultivated
How To Use goldfields In A Sentence
- The northern border of North China massif is an important sector of goldfields in China.
- An hour later I found myself standing in the middle of a pub called the Golden Vine, by far one of the better institutions of intoxication in the central goldfields.
- To the original Witwatersrand was added an arc of satellite towns from the Far West Rand goldfields to the huge coal, electricity, and oil plants of the eastern Transvaal.
- Warwick's skills as a chimney maker were at a premium in the goldfields, and prized heirlooms were bartered for his services.
- The desire to increase the female population on the goldfields was popular among administrators and legislators, but it was also a move not surprisingly favoured by the men themselves.
- There was more than one way to strike it rich in the goldfields of the North.
- He trained and worked as a surveyor, but, because of the Depression, tried his luck on the goldfields of South Westland.
- A map of Victoria in 1869 showed most of the colony, except for the Western District and the central goldfields, still under forest cover.
- Though founded in 1893 as a port for the Kalgoorlie goldfields, growth was slow until the 1960s, when a farming boom followed the discovery that the poor soils could be greatly improved by adding superphosphate and trace elements.
- Such legends abounded in the goldfields, and they were all so false as to be a joke to fool a tenderfoot. PAINT THE WIND