How to Use gold rush in a Sentence

gold rush

noun

• For Fitzhugh, the gold rush wasn’t the stuff of Jack London.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2021
• In the first decade of the 1900s, Alaska had its very own gold rush.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2024
• In 1860, Ford learned of a new gold rush—this one in Colorado.
  — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 8 May 2021
• But there is more to space mining than a gold rush for the sci-fi age.
  — Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY, 22 July 2019
• 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
• Indeed a gold rush that many called a trick first put Colorado on the map.
  — Tom Noel, The Know, 24 Aug. 2019
• And now the streaming gold rush—the era that made Dickinson—is over.
  — Daniel Bessner, Harper's Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
• At the southern edge of the Sahara, a West African gold rush is under way.
  — Robert Draper, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• 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
• Overnight the gold rush that had sustained the searchers was over, and many were left feeling a bit cheated.
  — CBS News, 22 May 2021
• For Democrats, that gold rush of cash could not come at a more important time.
  — Maeve Reston, Washington Post, 22 July 2024
• Someone referred to it as the next gold rush in retail.
  — Ally Marotti, chicagotribune.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• The rise is also something of a gold rush, says McQuirter.
  — Chase Purdy, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2020
• Montana is full of ghost towns that date back to the gold rush, but one is very much alive: Virginia City.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2021
• 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
• There is a plan to drill for the water and look for it, the way people hunted for underground gold during the 19th century gold rush.
  — Thomas Orlando, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2024
• History buffs will find plenty of points of interest in the city, which was founded as a gold camp during Montana’s gold rush.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Jan 2025