How to Use windfall in a Sentence

windfall

noun

• They received a windfall because of the tax cuts.
• But for the places that got it right time, these last two year have brought a windfall.
  — Michael Croley, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2022
• The biggest windfall of all, though, has been a $35 million grant from the city.
  — Esther Wang, Curbed, 17 Dec. 2021
• The school is expected to use the windfall to help pay down its debts.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2022
• Prepare to receive a windfall as the moon and Jupiter align.
  — USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
• At the urging of his son, Evans then contacted the state park to share the news of his windfall.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 25 Dec. 2023
• The size of the senior partners’ windfall has been reduced as the plan has evolved.
  — Jean Eaglesham, WSJ, 20 June 2022
• The windfall comes as Trump is mired in a slew of legal cases.
  — Rafael Nam, NPR, 25 Mar. 2024
• Quite a windfall if Big Blue could land him and Thibodeaux.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2022
• The lottery player has plans on how to use her windfall of cash.
  — Makiya Seminera, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2024
• How a tech billionaire’s bid to uplift the poor became a windfall for the rich.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2022
• Now the on-field bounty must match the financial windfall.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
• Two councilmembers on the North Side have put forward their own plans for the windfall.
  — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Aug. 2022
• Who could possibly be against this windfall of cash and fun?
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
• In times of windfall – and of discontent – governments know what to do: Spread the wealth.
  — Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2022
• But $2,000 a month would have been a windfall for the family, said Smith's wife, Helen.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, USA TODAY, 9 June 2022
• If that happens, the savings could provide a windfall, not a loss.
  — Adam Popescu, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2022
• The move provides the ACC a windfall of revenue for its current members.
  — Aaron Beard and Ralph D. Russo, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
• The tongue-in-cheek suggestion that any windfall would serve as the group’s retirement fund was just a joke, Reynolds said.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
• Now Roche, the Swiss giant known for its cancer drugs, could be the next drugmaker to see a windfall from weight-loss drugs.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 29 July 2024
• The windfall paid for park and bridge improvements, among others.
  — Morgan Lee and Mead Gruver, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2022
• The plan would have cost the state more than $3.5 billion and forced the state to spend most of the revenue windfall is gained due to higher oil prices attributed to the war in Ukraine.
  — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2022
• The state lottery said Bashaw finished his last two weeks without telling anyone at work about the windfall.
  — Toni Caushi, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
• Mel Tucker’s new contract brought about a windfall for the rest of his Michigan State football staff.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 25 Feb. 2022
• One city is even expecting a windfall tax gain that will wipe out its entire debt in one fell swoop.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2022
• The rebates came after a windfall of tax collections triggered the 1986 law for just the second time.
  — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2022
• Some Democrats on Capitol Hill have called for a windfall tax on oil companies.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 11 May 2022
• The terms of the deal represent a windfall for the selling limited partners.
  — Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 11 Oct. 2024
• The windfall is the result of revenue exceeding estimates, savings and projects that didn't get done, according to city documents.
  — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 31 Oct. 2024
• The stock’s rally has generated a windfall, at least on paper, for Trump, whose majority ownership stake in the company is now worth more than $3 billion.
  — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 20 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024