Example sentences for: motherlode

How can you use “motherlode” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The book under review might well have included something on the subject of exposure in one of the essays collected within its pages, for much of the material selected by lexicographers as source corpora for citations is arrived at subjectively and impressionistically--though I hasten to allow that the subjective and impressionistic maunderings of a good, experienced linguist might well be worth a motherlode of statistics.

  • She's supposed to be an undercover insurance operative who's out to catch legendary burglar Sean Connery in the act of stealing a priceless Chinese mask--or is she actually a thief herself planning to bag the scrumptious Scotsman along with the motherlode?

  • Gloriously open to sky and sea, Piazza San Marco — to locals, just “the Piazza”—embodies the whole Venetian motherlode of history and adventure.

  • Nor does "The American Century" divide up this motherlode in any thoughtful or even coherent way.

  • Malkovich ), a game but witless redneck, and the resourceful Chief (Ice Cube) in search of the motherlode.


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