How to Use old gold in a Sentence

old gold

noun
  • To their astonishment, the box opened to reveal a trove of centuries-old gold coins.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Tore it apart before scraping it and sure enough, tucked into a corner, covered with lint, was an old gold ring.
    — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The cave was an essential part of an old Gold Rush camp called Cave City.
    — Mike Morris, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2019
  • Chloe Kim is the 17-year-old gold medalist everyone is talking about.
    — Blake Bakkila, Health.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The winner is expected in the old Gold Rush town of Nome about nine days later.
    — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2018
  • The region is so pressed for this precious resource, one city is spending millions to use water from an old gold mine to meet demand.
    — Alicia Acuna, Fox News, 3 July 2018
  • In Oatman, an old gold mining town, donkeys followed tourists along the boardwalks and into stores.
    — Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 17 May 2026
  • The centuries-old gold market has historically been resistant to change, traders say.
    — Stephanie Yang, WSJ, 15 June 2018
  • Most tasting rooms in the county occupy small and historic quarters in the old gold camp of Murphys, with grapes grown and wines made elsewhere.
    — Mike Dunne, SFChronicle.com, 21 Jan. 2020
  • The ceiling of Lincrusta Walton is a dull silver gray while the walls of the same material are dainty figures of pink and old gold bronze.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Passing to the left through heavy portierres of old gold and pale blue material, the Pink Room or Reception Room, is reached.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Former student Jefferson Thomas died in 2010, so an empty seat stood amid the group, beneath a sash of black and old gold — the school’s colors.
    — USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2017
  • There has been an optimism among the old gold-and-black faithful that these Boilermakers might be the first since 1980 to reach the season's final weekend.
    — Dan Greene, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Discovering 300-year-old gold coins underwater is always exciting.
    — Mark Price, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The old gold-leafing plant on Love Lane was still a construction site when Scott-Miller started cooking and stockpiling groceries to donate to dozens and then hundreds of families.
    — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Authorities in Egypt are on the hunt for a 3,000-year-old gold bracelet, once owned by a pharaoh, which has disappeared from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
  • This tiny neighborhood is north of Fresno, in old gold-mining country, where the Friant Dam turns the San Joaquin River into Millerton Lake.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 17 June 2026
  • Yet since leaving the grind herself, the 51-year-old gold legend who lives in Orlando, has been firmly focused on developing young players and junior golf though her nonprofit, the Annika Foundation.
    — Andy Frye, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Archaeologists say that 2,000-year-old gold rings, recently found alongside human remains in western Thailand, offer new clues into the lives and social status of people who lived there during the Iron Age.
    — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 7 July 2026
  • Last week, two teenagers volunteering at an archaeological dig in central Israel unearthed hundreds of 1,100-year-old gold coins, reports the Associated Press.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Cairo, Egypt Reuters — A 3,000-year-old gold bracelet that disappeared from an Egyptian museum earlier this month was stolen and melted down, the country’s Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
    — CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Enchanted Circle Drive The Enchanted Circle Drive circumnavigates Wheeler Peak, the highest mountain in New Mexico, and cuts through the lush Hondo Valley, past the Taos Pueblo, and into old gold mining towns.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025

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