How to Use old gold in a Sentence

old gold

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  • The cave was an essential part of an old Gold Rush camp called Cave City.
    — Mike Morris, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2019
  • The winner is expected in the old Gold Rush town of Nome about nine days later.
    — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2018
  • To their astonishment, the box opened to reveal a trove of centuries-old gold coins.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Chloe Kim is the 17-year-old gold medalist everyone is talking about.
    — Blake Bakkila, Health.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Former student Jefferson Thomas died in 2010, so an empty seat stood amid the group, beneath a sash of black and old gold — the school’s colors.
    — USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Most tasting rooms in the county occupy small and historic quarters in the old gold camp of Murphys, with grapes grown and wines made elsewhere.
    — Mike Dunne, SFChronicle.com, 21 Jan. 2020
  • The region is so pressed for this precious resource, one city is spending millions to use water from an old gold mine to meet demand.
    — Alicia Acuna, Fox News, 3 July 2018
  • There has been an optimism among the old gold-and-black faithful that these Boilermakers might be the first since 1980 to reach the season's final weekend.
    — Dan Greene, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The ceiling of Lincrusta Walton is a dull silver gray while the walls of the same material are dainty figures of pink and old gold bronze.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Or not quite unfailingly: The existence of billions of dollars of gold bonds—bonds payable in dollars of the old gold value—threatened the Warren system.
    — James Grant, WSJ, 28 May 2018
  • The old gold-leafing plant on Love Lane was still a construction site when Scott-Miller started cooking and stockpiling groceries to donate to dozens and then hundreds of families.
    — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 25 Dec. 2020
  • The centuries-old gold market has historically been resistant to change, traders say.
    — Stephanie Yang, WSJ, 15 June 2018
  • It was declared incomparable yet compared to everything: old gold, the clear autumn air.
    — Washington Post, 12 May 2021
  • Yet since leaving the grind herself, the 51-year-old gold legend who lives in Orlando, has been firmly focused on developing young players and junior golf though her nonprofit, the Annika Foundation.
    — Andy Frye, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Last week, two teenagers volunteering at an archaeological dig in central Israel unearthed hundreds of 1,100-year-old gold coins, reports the Associated Press.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2020

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