How to Use gold rush in a Sentence

gold rush

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  • The gold rush drew men and women from every state in the union — Black and white, free and slave.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2022
  • The Dixie Fire ravaged the gold rush town of Greenville on Aug. 4, about two weeks ago.
    — Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The news comes amidst a gold rush of video game adaptations.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 30 May 2024
  • Despite this gold rush, not a whole lot of cash has been splashed in hip-hop.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Homestake’s origins were in the Black Hills gold rush of the 1870s.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2021
  • As with many across the country, the onset of the Klondike gold rush caused a severe case of gold fever.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • These acronyms are more than just a gold rush, says Matthew Leising, author of Out of the Ether.
    — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2021
  • In this sense, a gold rush is an apt metaphor for those heady days of the early social web.
    — Sam Venis, The New Republic, 30 July 2023
  • Across Sedona, rental prices were soaring—and a new kind of Airbnb gold rush was to blame.
    — Rosie Bradbury, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The surest way to make money in AI is the same way as during any gold rush: just sell the shovels.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Vishria knew that a gold rush was under way, and that someone had to build the picks and shovels.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2021
  • For Democrats, that gold rush of cash could not come at a more important time.
    — Maeve Reston, Washington Post, 22 July 2024
  • The Middle Fork was reshaped by the gold rush of the 1800s, which was apparent throughout the trip.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 7 June 2024
  • Some even date back to the 1850s during Jacksonville’s origins as a gold rush town.
    — Frederick Tippett, Sunset Magazine, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The message: let others play with the clothing and pick axes in the AI gold rush, Salesforce has the gold.
    — Kylie Robison, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Like any gold rush, EVs will likely have its winners and losers.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
  • By the time Huie and his cousins arrived in California, the gold rush there was over.
    — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Nakia Williamson said that after losing their land to the gold rush of the 1800s, the Nimiipu have given enough and do not want to give up the mine.
    — CBS News, 14 Aug. 2021
  • But in sports, the streaming gold rush has largely done the opposite.
    — Alex Kirshner, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The third and final season asks the question: Who is best positioned to win in a gold rush?
    — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Miners came during the gold rush, built settlements to house the workers and left when the veins dried up.
    — Thomas France, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Looks like the pandemic has proven to be a gold rush for financial tech.
    — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2021
  • There has been a landgrab, but not exactly a gold rush.
    — Jess Collen, Forbes, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Boise, Idaho — Boise is having its biggest gold rush since the 1860s.
    — Mark Strassmann, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2021
  • After the gold rush, settlers moved in, and the land was used mainly for horse farms and agriculture.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • But scarcity isn’t the only factor driving the watch gold rush.
    — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Caeleb Dressel finished off his gold rush at the Tokyo Olympics with two more dazzling swims.
    — Paul Newberry, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2021
  • Founded in the 1860s as a railway hub, the city prospered during the silver and gold rushes.
    — Ken Belson, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • And then the comedown, or, in Neil Young’s coda to Jim Morrison, life after the gold rush.
    — James Reich, SPIN, 31 Jan. 2023
  • In 1999, Warren Buffett struck an infamous note of caution in a speech about investment results, with an eye to the would-be moguls seeking their fortune on the gold rush of early dot-com ventures.
    — Erik Hayden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 July 2024

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