Below you will find example sentences with "gold rush". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Gold Rush in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: rush
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 14
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 31.3 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 5 start, 12 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "gold rush" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 31.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a humongous gold rush between 1850, a mini gold rush caused by, california, witwatersrand and bottega stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with gold medal, gold mining, gold mine, rush hour and pass rush, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with gold rush
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
After the Gold Rush had concluded, gold recovery operations continued. (10 words)
President James K. Polk triggers the Gold Rush of `49 by confirming that gold was discovered in California. (18 words)
Many prospectors avoided the area after the Mount Pisgah hoax, a mini gold rush caused by salting (adding gold to worthless rock). (22 words)
Just as the Pacific was critical in transporting miners in the rush for gold and has been key to our state’s and our nation’s epic transoceanic commerce, it can now usher in our next Gold Rush in the form of offshore wind power. (45 words)
I think we need a wake up call about how this all works, what kind of forces have been unleashed by the gold rush of California, just as powerful forces and names like Hearst and Stanford and Huntington were unleashed in the original Gold Rush. (45 words)
In my own fair land, there was a humongous Gold Rush between 1850 and 1890 – more gold was pulled from the ground in about three of four regional centres in our colonies than in the rest of the world combined. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
Gold rush and naming of the city main The main Witwatersrand gold reef was discovered in June 1884 on the farm Vogelstruisfontein by Jan Gerritse Bantjes that triggered the Witwatersrand Gold Rush and the start of Johannesburg in 1886.
Just as the Pacific was critical in transporting miners in the rush for gold and has been key to our state’s and our nation’s epic transoceanic commerce, it can now usher in our next Gold Rush in the form of offshore wind power.
I think we need a wake up call about how this all works, what kind of forces have been unleashed by the gold rush of California, just as powerful forces and names like Hearst and Stanford and Huntington were unleashed in the original Gold Rush.
Party revelers can expect the finest of at the gold rush parties from a variant of Bottega Gold, Bottega Stardust or Bottega Rose Gold.
During the early stages of the gold rush, when surface gold was plentiful, the Chinese were tolerated, if not well received. citation As gold became harder to find and competition increased, animosity toward the Chinese and other foreigners increased.
Much like the dotcom bubble (and dare I say it, the current AI bubble), the white gold rush saw every speculative mining company – from gold to copper and iron ore players – jumping on the lithium bandwagon.
Tasmanian Gabriel Read’s first gold discovery in 1861 in the Tuapeka district on New Zealand's South Island became the focal point of New Zealand's first gold rush.
The Klondike was the epicentre of the historic Klondike Gold Rush in 1896 with over 20 million ounces of placer gold production having occurred in the region since that time.
Gold Rush II involved putting 3.5 ounces of gold in a creek and flying in social media influencers to pan for it, just like the first prospectors did in 1898.
In my own fair land, there was a humongous Gold Rush between 1850 and 1890 – more gold was pulled from the ground in about three of four regional centres in our colonies than in the rest of the world combined.
James W. Marshall, a New Jersey native, discovers a gold nugget at Sutter’s Mill in Northern California, helping launch the gold rush of 1849.
As Alaskans remember the large gold strikes of 100 years ago, Cordovans experienced something of a gold rush in 1913 when a placer strike in the Shushanna district attracted interest.
President James K. Polk triggers the Gold Rush of `49 by confirming that gold was discovered in California.
After the Gold Rush had concluded, gold recovery operations continued.
All lines, except the lines in grey, were constructed by the Netherlands-South African Railway Company The discovery of gold during the Witwatersrand Gold Rush in 1886 changed the economic fortunes of the formerly impoverished ZAR.
In the 19th century the gold find in the Sierra Nevada was the impetus to the California Gold Rush with an enormous population influx.
Many prospectors avoided the area after the Mount Pisgah hoax, a mini gold rush caused by salting (adding gold to worthless rock).
Mission San Jose District At the time of the California Gold Rush, a boom town grew up around the old Mission, to equip and transport 49ers overland to the gold fields.
Tensions sometimes ran high between the settlers and the "Vandemonians" as they were termed, particularly during the Victorian gold rush when a flood of settlers from Van Diemen's Land rushed to the Victorian gold fields.
The discovery of gold by employees of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line digging holes for telegraph poles at Pine Creek in the 1880s spawned a gold rush which further boosted the young colony's development.