How to Use lode in a Sentence
lode
noun-
In the 1860s, gold miners moved into the Paradise Valley to work the lodes.
— Jim Robbins, WSJ, 19 July 2017 -
They were written at the same desk where O’Connor wrote her fiction and are found in the same lode of correspondence that has brought about the rise in her stature.
— Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020 -
Grocery Outlet: This bargain market lives up to its billing with the mother lode of wine deals.
— Mary Orlin, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2017 -
Those in search of transformative music have just hit the mother lode.
— Scott Thill, WIRED, 6 May 2008 -
The lode, which was named after Henry Comstock, was the first major discovery of silver in the United States.
— Jonah Raskin, SFChronicle.com, 25 June 2018 -
And yet the stooges in movies like Zoolander come in handy as providers of an alternative mother lode of teachable moments.
— Jeff Gordinier, Esquire, 1 June 2017 -
Every bite strikes a lode of mole poblano, salsa verde or salsa roja, marbling the beautifully tender dough, like meat.
— Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2016 -
That’s when Janice Regan and her grandson decided to beachcomb the sandy island, finding a mother lode of pristine shells.
— Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 28 June 2017 -
Lodes credited his players for adjusting to him and each other, with several new players in from North.
— Steve Millar, Daily Southtown, 14 May 2017 -
But that mineral lode has been out of reach largely because of the project’s location in southwestern Alaska, in an area that drains into Bristol Bay, home to the world’s most productive wild salmon fishery.
— Bloomberg, latimes.com, 26 June 2019 -
Yet no embarrassing revelations from that lode have emerged — so far — nor has Russian unleashed its propaganda networks and bots to spread fake news.
— Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 14 Sep. 2017 -
New Yorkers welcomed speckled Asian pears; papaya with its lode of dripping black seeds; rough-skinned litchi disclosing creamy white flesh; knobby cherimoya with guts of custard; star fruit with its sharp angles and plasticized shine.
— New York Times, 16 Apr. 2018 -
Investigators unknowingly hit the moon mother lode in 2003 while searching the garage of a man later convicted of stealing and selling museum artifacts, including some that were on loan from NASA.
— Bloomberg.com, 20 July 2017
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