mother lode
Example Sentences
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But it could be a mother lode for small and large local news outlets, providing $500 million a year to preserve and grow local newsrooms.
From Seattle Times • May 15, 2024
Two-thousand-five-hundred miles west of Dodger Stadium was a mother lode of Dodgers memorabilia.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023
The mother lode of winter storms has sent water blasting through rock crevices and rivers in the Sierra Nevada, leading to more glittering discoveries by prospectors.
From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2023
He is facing upriver, an inveterate white-water miner, basking for one more moment in the glow of the mother lode.
From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2022
First they ripped out the boards that covered the ancient fireplace, coming upon the rusty bricks like prospectors upon the mother lode.
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
