Example sentences for: windfall

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

  • The ubiquitous "Make Money Fast" e-mail recasts the classic pyramid scheme as e-scam: Send $5 to the names on the list, add your own name to the bottom, and reap your windfall later.

  • In the short run, the massive price increases of the early and then late 1970s brought huge windfall profits to OPEC members (and, to a lesser extent, to the Western oil companies that still handled much of their production).

  • Alas, Prudie is not the dispenser of the windfall for animals, but she cannot disagree with any of the points you make.

  • The New York Times relegates impeachment to the off-lead and instead turns to tobacco, the old standby, to explain the creative ways states are spending the windfall from their victorious anti-tobacco lawsuit.

  • The fiscal consensus is that politicians of both parties have once again managed to take credit for a windfall not of their making (since the economy is generating enough revenue to balance the budget without any deal) and squander the windfall on politically calculated handouts.


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