How to Use gusher in a Sentence

gusher

noun

• Shooting up from the ground like a gusher fixed in wood.
  — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2020
• Eight months later, oil drillers hit the first gusher a few miles from the village.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Mar. 2021
• Since the Spindletop gusher in 1901, Texas has led the U.S. in oil and gas production.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 July 2023
• Trump, in contrast, opened the media faucet in his 20s and never turned off the gusher.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Is this the day that tiny head-gasket leak turns into a gusher?
  — Jason M. Vaughn, Car and Driver, 23 May 2020
• Trump, for his part, would like to increase tariffs and pump out gushers of oil.
  — Josh Boak, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024
• But the data gusher isn’t ending, look at what’s coming out (and has come out) in the 1000 Genomes project!
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2011
• See historic photos from the Spindletop gusher and other oil fields over the years in the gallery above.
  — Matt Levin, Houston Chronicle, 24 Apr. 2020
• On one hand, a new gusher of money for golf arguably will lift the sport and its players.
  — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
• Only this was no trickling stream, but a gusher that would cost him more than $1,000.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
• So how did America defy the CONs and create such an on-the-spot gusher in beds?
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2020
• One clash has come in Kirkuk, where explorers struck Iraq’s first oil gusher in 1927.
  — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2017
• Venezuela holds the world's largest supply of crude oil -- which once seemed like an endless gusher of cash for the government.
  — Mariano Castillo and Marilia Brocchetto, CNN, 20 May 2018
• This suggests Exxon and Chevron’s cash gusher peaked last year, investors said.
  — Collin Eaton, wsj.com, 28 Apr. 2023
• Ukraine’s economy has been battered, but receives a gusher of aid from the West to stay afloat.
  — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2022
• Oil Springs’s oil boom went bust in 1866 when the first gusher was struck in Petrolia, drawing muckers and greasers eight miles north.
  — Claudia Capos, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Royal Dutch Shell issued a gusher of a write-down this morning.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 30 June 2020
• But the past 24-hours saw a gusher of Trump news, perhaps none as notable as his pledge to send troops to the U.S. border with Mexico.
  — John Myers, latimes.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• In Boudin’s case, the gusher of money his opponents raised clearly played a big role in his defeat.
  — David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2022
• But this time, Ultra drilled a gusher, which maxed out at the equivalent of 51 million cubic feet a day.
  — Stephanie Yang, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2018
• Meanwhile gushers in the country are producing at a record pace.
  — Bloomberg News, NOLA.com, 26 Dec. 2017
• Now the Venezuelan gusher has dried up and so has Mr. Ortega’s support.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2018
• So a gusher of angry tweets about a company is likely to be coming from a subset of that 16%.
  — Sarah Halzack | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2019
• But the profit gusher got capped at the start of 2019, and analysts say the sputtering out may last most of this year as the tax-cut jolt wears off and worries about the trade war linger.
  — CBS News, 11 July 2019
• The techniques led to gushers at old fields in Texas, North Dakota and Pennsylvania.
  — Robert Tuttle, Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2017
• But the unions are expected to take a big swing at turning the trickle of data that now exists into a gusher.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 28 Feb. 2023
• The final stop was the Gullfoss waterfall, a roaring, two-tiered gusher.
  — Bart Ziegler, WSJ, 16 July 2021
• Despite the head-turning numbers, though, sports betting has not been a gusher for state treasuries.
  — Washington Post, 12 July 2019
• Donald Trump drilled down like a Texas oilman desperate to let loose a gusher of oozing sludge.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 1 June 2017
• The fight for votes has prompted plenty of sloganeering and a gusher of spending.
  — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024