How to Use goldfield in a Sentence

goldfield

noun
  • The reserve is known for its meadows of sky lupine and goldfields.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2026
  • By the end of 1851 half the men of the colony were working on the goldfields.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Keep an eye out for popcorn flowers, yarrow, goldfields, mustard and sticky monkey-flowers.
    — Alissa Greenberg, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The first is the amount of the valley — shown in a satellite image — covered in poppies and goldfields, expressed as a percentage.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The remote, open space is known for sightings of yellow native daisies, California goldfields, and pink-purple owl's clovers.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Speculation, obstructive mining laws, poor ore bodies, and bad living conditions on the goldfields meant that a mild boom was followed by a major bust.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Even European diggers in Austrialia’s goldfields included it in their celebrations by mid-century.
    — Troy Bickham, The Conversation, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Thereafter restrictive immigration policies brought a steady decline, but the Chinese workers continued to dominate the goldfields and business in the northern part of the territory.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Outside of Darfur, the RSF controls most the country’s oil fields, many of the goldfields in central and southwest Sudan, and splits control over important grazing lands with the SAF.
    — Christopher Tounsel, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Three of my favorite wildflowers are Tolmie’s star-tulip (Calochortus tolmiei), California goldfields (Lasthenia californica) and yellow paintbrush (Castilleja wightii).
    — Katie Martin, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Gold brought development, however, in the growth of Darwin and goldfields settlements, in the construction of the Darwin–Pine Creek railway (completed in 1889), and in the influx of Chinese immigrants.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Issues surrounding the recruitment of South Sea islanders as workers influenced the movement demanding the segregation of white from Aboriginal communities, particularly in central and northern Queensland (the region of sugarcane and goldfields).
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
  • At the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, visitors can find large patches of California poppies, goldfields and other wildflowers, according to state park interpreter Lori Wear.
    — Cierra Morgan, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • From March to April, bright-yellow goldfields, purple phacelia, orange poppies, and pinkish stalks of owl’s clover carpet the rolling green hills at Carrizo Plain National Monument, a more than 200,000-acre open space in eastern San Luis Obispo County.
    — Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2026

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