How to Use gold rush in a Sentence

gold rush

noun
  • And the gold rush is far from over.
    — Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2025
  • After all, who wants to miss out on a gold rush?
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2026
  • That gold rush isn't about flashy apps or the next hot token.
    — Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • In this new gold rush, the prize goes to those who dare to be human.
    — Luca Brinkhues, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • But there is more to space mining than a gold rush for the sci-fi age.
    — Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY, 22 July 2019
  • Despite this gold rush, not a whole lot of cash has been splashed in hip-hop.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2022
  • In Australia, sly grog shops popped up across dusty gold rush towns.
    — Rebecca Styn, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2025
  • What happens to the picks and shovels when the gold rush goes bust?
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Today’s gold rush is a #goldrush.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • 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
  • This could be a gold rush for personal injury lawyers.
    — Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Oc Register, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Andreessen Horowitz’s new fund comes amid a crypto gold rush.
    — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 24 June 2021
  • Some observers think the gold rush days of bitcoin are already over.
    — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Apr. 2018
  • In this modern-day gold rush, the resource to mine is talent.
    — Theo Baker, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Indeed a gold rush that many called a trick first put Colorado on the map.
    — Tom Noel, The Know, 24 Aug. 2019
  • For Democrats, that gold rush of cash could not come at a more important time.
    — Maeve Reston, Washington Post, 22 July 2024
  • 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
  • Like any gold rush, EVs will likely have its winners and losers.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 12 Nov. 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
  • And now the streaming gold rush—the era that made Dickinson—is over.
    — Daniel Bessner, Harper's Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • But in sports, the streaming gold rush has largely done the opposite.
    — Alex Kirshner, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2022
  • In the first decade of the 1900s, Alaska had its very own gold rush.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Across Sedona, rental prices were soaring—and a new kind of Airbnb gold rush was to blame.
    — Rosie Bradbury, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2022
  • State-level proponents say this is the moment to profit from the gold rush.
    — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Then, the following year brought a gold rush of success to the Bay Area.
    — Devon Henderson, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The Irish also joined, becoming a potent force in the gold rush.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • But California’s gold rush era is the source of many great ghost stories—and ghost towns.
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
  • In 1860, Ford learned of a new gold rush—this one in Colorado.
    — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 8 May 2021

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