How to Use gusher in a Sentence

gusher

noun
  • The gusher didn’t relent for nine days.
    — Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Is this the day that tiny head-gasket leak turns into a gusher?
    — Jason M. Vaughn, Car and Driver, 23 May 2020
  • Eight months later, oil drillers hit the first gusher a few miles from the village.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Trump, for his part, would like to increase tariffs and pump out gushers of oil.
    — Josh Boak, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Mahan’s sudden cash gusher can’t hurt.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The next best thing to do is to attempt to minimize the risks and hope that the gusher can keep flowing.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Meanwhile gushers in the country are producing at a record pace.
    — Bloomberg News, NOLA.com, 26 Dec. 2017
  • This suggests Exxon and Chevron’s cash gusher peaked last year, investors said.
    — Collin Eaton, wsj.com, 28 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The new crush of detainees just means an even bigger gusher of federal dollars.
    — Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Royal Dutch Shell issued a gusher of a write-down this morning.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 30 June 2020
  • 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
  • Ukraine’s economy has been battered, but receives a gusher of aid from the West to stay afloat.
    — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Despite the head-turning numbers, though, sports betting has not been a gusher for state treasuries.
    — Washington Post, 12 July 2019
  • This could only happen in a city on such a gusher of success and prosperity.
    — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 28 July 2017
  • The fight for votes has prompted plenty of sloganeering and a gusher of spending.
    — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
  • One of baseball’s most dependable rotations has sprung the type of gusher that sinks playoff runs.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • And who on campus is qualified to treat this gusher of gambling addictions?
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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 after a decade of subsidized oil and cheap loans the gusher has gone largely dry as Venezuela’s economy has crashed.
    — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2018
  • One clash has come in Kirkuk, where explorers struck Iraq’s first oil gusher in 1927.
    — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2017
  • If the stock can achieve this realistic goal, then a gusher of profits and a run into the $140s should await.
    — Jay Woods, CNBC, 2 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Still, that doesn’t mean that the gusher of Middle Eastern money is going to completely dry up.
    — Brett Knight, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026

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