How to Use gold mine in a Sentence

gold mine

noun
Definition of gold minenext
Synonyms for gold minenext
  • The library is a gold mine of information.
  • The look of the restaurant’s speakeasy evokes the black and gold hues of Incan gold mines.
    — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
  • The next Monday, Church returned to the Elko gold mine.
    — Meg Bernhard, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The supply has not been used up, like a gold mine stripped of its last nugget.
    — Peter Greene, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • This two-day marathon is a bona-fide gold mine for discounts and deals.
    — Grace Smith, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 July 2023
  • There is an active gold mine near the largest city in the area, Val-d’Or, or Valley of Gold.
    — Jack Ewing Brendan George Ko For The New York Times, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Modernization hit the state’s silver and gold mines, among the largest in the world.
    — Nina Shapiro, The Seattle Times, 24 Sep. 2019
  • The one small bit of uplifting news here is that as far as land costs go, the Moon is a gold mine.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 18 Mar. 2021
  • And seating her next to Ice Spice for most of the night was a gold mine of social content.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2023
  • His grandfather had a farm of 215 acres and a senior job in a gold mine.
    — Lynsey Chutel Joao Silva, New York Times, 28 May 2024
  • Compelling was too weak a word for this gold mine of self-awareness.
    — Wired, 24 Sep. 2019
  • The Globe and Phoenix gold mine was condemned and forced to close in 2007, the outlet reported.
    — Fox News, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The laptop, on the other hand, was a gold mine of evidence.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The 2021 draft ended up being a gold mine of standouts.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2022
  • Here, Murray Millwood has built and runs his own gold mine.
    — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
  • But that same speed is proving to be a gold mine for those engaging in fraud.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Apple’s late co-founder Steve Jobs and his team came to realize that the store could be a new gold mine.
    — Tim Higgins, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2021
  • João Moreira arrived in Yanomami in the late 1980s, hoping to strike it rich in a gold mine.
    — Ana Ionova, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2023
  • If the goal is to make shows people will value enough to pay for, there is still an untapped gold mine.
    — Angela L. Harvey, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2023
  • His gold mine hasn't panned out but his car business is thriving.
    — George Osterkamp, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Church, who returned to the family’s ranch to help run cattle, works full time for the town’s gold mine.
    — Meg Bernhard, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Russia’s largest gold mine in Siberia has 89 sick workers.
    — Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
  • Monroe was a Method gold mine; the Strasbergs could help her turn her pain into art.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The Central Asian country is home to Muruntau, the world’s largest open-pit gold mine by area.
    — Frank Holmes, Forbes, 22 June 2021
  • Elon Musk may have driven his own clown car into his own gold mine.
    — Carl Miller, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Start out by shopping the standout picks from the Madewell sale below, then embark on the gold mine that is the The Big Deal for even more must-have pieces.
    — Erin Parker, Glamour, 10 July 2020
  • For such a concrete connoisseur, Ukraine is a gold mine.
    — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022
  • And hitting a ceiling on a rookie contract can be a gold mine.
    — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Apr. 2023
  • This is a gold mine if employers in your field value creativity.
    — Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 26 Jan. 2024
  • In Darfur, his forces took over the region’s artisanal gold mines, defeating rival commanders.
    — Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 27 Apr. 2023

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