bonanzain a sentence
- proved to be a bonanza for the local residents
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I'd baked three pies with apples from a nearby orchard.
"Bonanza!" Brian shouted. (source)bonanza = sudden good fortune
- I told her I worked at Shirt Bonanza, downstairs, and could get her some overstock maybe.† (source)
- "Christmas Cookie Bonanza," I confirm.† (source)
- What a bonanza.† (source)
- Eating lunch at Bonanza and having their portraits taken in matching sweaters.† (source)
- These new GMO seeds could be a bonanza for the seed companies.† (source)
- The tax cuts that are hampering America's schools have proved to be a marketing bonanza for companies like Exxon, Pizza Hut, and McDonald's.† (source)
- For them it was just a new wrinkle in a ratings bonanza, but it was much better than Nick, did you kill your wife?† (source)
- He found that in the wide belt contained by the 70-degree lines, north and south, temperatures for thousands of years hadn't gone outside the 254-332 degrees (absolute) range, and that this belt had long growing seasons where temperatures ranged, from 284 to 302 degrees absolute: the "bonanza" range for terraform life …. once they solved the water problem.† (source)
- Birthday parties were bonanzas for him.† (source)
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- Bonanza.† (source)
- "for the cops it was a bonanza," Bratton writes.† (source)
- It was one of the biggest sales bonanzas of the year, with games for the kids, fortune-tellers, Slurpee machines, even one very tired looking pony that was walking circles around the auto bays.† (source)
- Each time she landed with the heel of her shoe, Orr giggled louder, infuriating her still further so that she flew up still higher into the air for another shot at his noodle, her wondrously full breasts soaring all over the place like billowing pennants in a strong wind and her buttocks and strong thighs shim-sham-shimmying this way and that way like some horrifying bonanza.† (source)
- Tip-wise, Saturday night had been a bonanza, but Friday had been disappointing, which was why she'd resolved to stick it out one last night.† (source)
- Sounds like a five-year lawsuit bonanza to me.† (source)
- Playing out some moronic Bonanza where my thirty-year-old brothers were blindly taking orders from a pontificating, bigoted French Canadian father whose only smarts came with his money and his land.† (source)
- Its tax revenues have given the county a bonanza for roads and the highest per capita school expenditure in the state.† (source)
- 50 in her pocket, a bonanza!† (source)
- It's a goddam bonanza.† (source)
- It was soon appointment viewing, a ratings bonanza.† (source)
- He called me the next day and we went to lunch at Bonanza.† (source)
- Oedipa had planned on nothing more involved that evening than watching Bonanza on the tube.† (source)
- Even though it was hardly what you might call a bonanza.† (source)
- THE CHRISTMAS COOKIE BONANZA STARTS December first.† (source)
- You guys did the Christmas Cookie Bonanza without me?† (source)
- To me he says, "Christmas Cookie Bonanza?"† (source)
- And today was a bonanza—new shoes, Mason's kisses and a strike.† (source)
- Sidney got Oz confused with an episode from "Bonanza."† (source)
- It's so cozy to do Christmas Cookie Bonanza and have the lights twinkling on the tree and Christmas music and the whole house smelling like sugar and butter.† (source)
- These occasions were a bonanza to the local bar as the lawyers raged in and out of court and the assets evaporated in legal fees.† (source)
- Sometimes Francie came across a bonanza: the bottom of a discarded wash boiler.† (source)
- Terry Wickett, one of the chemists here, calls this 'Bonanza Hall.'† (source)
- At least I'd avoid all the gassing at lunch in Bonanza Hall.† (source)
- "And break it out? and walk off with it for a hundred yards?" demanded Matthewson, a Bonanza King, he of the seven hundred vaunt.† (source)
- He was shy before the spectacled gravity of the five Trustees as they sat, like a Supreme Court, at the dais table in Bonanza Hall— Gottlieb a little removed, also trying to look grave and supreme.† (source)
- There just aren't going to be any one-man bonanzas.† (source)
- To them, as soon as gold was discovered, were added /bonanza/, /eldorado/, /placer/ and /vigilante/.† (source)
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