How to Use windfall in a Sentence

windfall

noun

• They received a windfall because of the tax cuts.
• The slope of the hill provided good drainage, and the windfall would have kept the worst of the snow off him.
  — Ben East, Outdoor Life, 28 Nov. 2024
• But for the places that got it right time, these last two year have brought a windfall.
  — Michael Croley, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2022
• All components of the IRS have lined up for their share of the windfall.
  — William Henck, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024
• The windfall would be huge if these could be mined in abundance and brought to Earth.
  — Jonathan O’Callaghan, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
• 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
• If the group doesn't get a windfall of a half-million dollars soon, SOUL will close its doors at the end of next month.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2025
• How a tech billionaire’s bid to uplift the poor became a windfall for the rich.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2022
• So, what will the student do with his newfound windfall?
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 12 Nov. 2021
• 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
• So what does a well-heeled insurer do amid such a windfall?
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2021
• The move provides the ACC a windfall of revenue for its current members.
  — Aaron Beard and Ralph D. Russo, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
• Membership in the Big 12 would mean a colossal windfall for the Provo school.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Sep. 2021
• 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
• To understand the windfall, take the case of the Uihlein family.
  — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 12 Aug. 2021
• The Mission deal has not resulted in any cash windfall for Siegel’s son.
  — oregonlive, 18 July 2021
• Why risk that windfall by returning to college another year and possibly getting hurt?
  — Sean Gregory, TIME, 11 Mar. 2025
• But the Holy Cross analysis found that the economic impact for host cities is, on average, small and may even be negative sometimes over long timespans, contradicting the financial windfall rhetoric.
  — Brian Roberts, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025