Example sentences for: windfall

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

  • 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).

  • Yet the exclusionary rule in effect rewards B with just such a windfall by sparing him from the conviction."

  • My hope, therefore, is that once policy makers begin to realise what's coming they will factor in this eventual windfall and allocate sufficient short-term resources to make the period of limited availability of rejuvenation therapies brief enough to prevent mayhem.

  • 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.

  • So the government's windfall, if it exists, would have to come at the expense of rival private investors.


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