How to Use black gold in a Sentence

black gold

noun

• After months of drilling, they finally hit black gold.
• Crank the valve, shut the pipe and start bailing the black gold out of the Gulf.
  — Harry Sawyers, Popular Mechanics, 30 Apr. 2010
• One of the products of the economy that black gold built is the city of Port Arthur, Texas.
  — Wired, 29 July 2022
• The blingy hoops are .17 carats total, and come in white, yellow, rose, and black gold.
  — Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 28 Dec. 2018
• Not even Jed Clampett — black gold, Texas tea — struck for those kind of numbers.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2022
• The power of the black gold is preached loudly at this stall on Saturdays and Sundays.
  — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Apr. 2021
• Next stop, Edmonton, the open prairie of Alberta, where Stanley Cups once oozed out of the ground like black gold.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2020
• The commander-in-chief calling a pregnant black Gold Star widow a liar in a public feud.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2018
• Word of Ontario’s oil strike spread black gold fever throughout Canada and beyond.
  — Claudia Capos, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Bloomberg reports that growth in demand for black gold either has already hit its zenith or nearly there.
  — Mark Olalde, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2020
• Divers had become intrigued by a booming oil industry, and the allure of black gold replaced the desire to retrieve the tears of the mermaids.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 14 May 2019
• As a result, the oil companies that drilled, shipped and sold black gold reaped billion in profit year after year and continue to do so.
  — Justin Worland, Time, 1 Mar. 2018
• Oil is the black gold that has no substitute whatsoever.
  — Jude Clemente, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
• This is a great way to turn your unwanted kitchen waste into black gold by leveraging a gardener's best friends: worms.
  — James Jackson, Popular Mechanics, 12 Mar. 2013
• But scraps can also be recycled into black gold, or free compost for your garden.
  — Allison Chinchar, CNN, 3 Jan. 2021
• In contrast to the black gold drilled by oil majors, LanzaTech produces ethanol.
  — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
• The actor was seen carrying a cream version of the bag in Paris (fitting given its heritage) which offset her black gold-buttoned coat dress and stilettos.
  — Alice Cary, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2023
• Within a few months, all that matter will be transformed into rich, organic compost—AKA black gold.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2021
• Faith indeed looms large over the Permian Basin, a sedimentary basin rich with black gold that gave rise to the Texas oil legend as well as the Bush family dynasty.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2019
• Industry held a nationwide contest years ago and decided to call it biosolids, a euphemism that beat out black gold, geoslime and humanure.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
• Special to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Walk into your garden, and you’re surrounded by black gold.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 July 2021
• The brighter outlook for the economy seemed to help oil prices recoup some losses that hit black gold amid the possibility of Iranian oil returning to the market.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 21 May 2021
• Without supporting evidence, Putin claimed that $30 trillion worth of black gold lay beneath his country’s portion of the Arctic.
  — Emily Atkin, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2018
• Despite a recent push towards green energy, America still runs on black gold.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 7 July 2022
• The bar had a representation of pints including their ubiquitous black gold, Guinness.
  — Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• As the price of black gold soared, Luanda, the capital, became one of the world’s most expensive cities, a place where developers imported palm trees from Miami and melons cost $100 each.
  — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2021
• This month, as in every spring, our family will spread wheelbarrow loads of the oldest compost, rendered into a rich mixture gardeners call black gold, atop our flower beds.
  — Danny Heitman, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021
• That black gold shaped early 20th-century Southern California, powering the growth of Los Angeles and making fortunes for many of the families whose names still adorn streets and buildings around the state.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2019
• The squeeze was triggered by a sometimes-inconvenient aspect of oil futures contracts: Someone eventually has to take physical delivery of all that black gold (or maybe, these days, bronze).
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 22 Apr. 2020
• So Trump, his patriotic bonafides exposed by his callous treatment of a black Gold Star widow, is now attempting to resurrect one issue that gets his base’s blood pumping: its hatred of black athletes who have something to say.
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 23 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024