How to Use strike gold in a Sentence

strike gold

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  • One lucky collector could strike gold at Phillips this month.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Thieves regularly strike gold with keys left in high-end cars.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Not everyone was able to strike gold with their live show performances.
    — USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
  • A lot of things have to go right for an indie album like this to strike gold, never mind go platinum.
    — Daniel Kohn, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Maybe the Frogs will strike gold with one of the running backs, although unlikely.
    — Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The retail media gold rush is on and with the right blueprint, even the smallest retailer can strike gold.
    — Charisma Glassman, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • However, his time at the computer company wasn’t what helped strike gold for his net worth.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2025
  • This is where the Lakers could strike gold due to the struggles that Cleveland saw in the postseason.
    — Matt Levine, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
  • And the track record, if Payton and Denver strike gold on any of them, will continue to recruit itself.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 18 May 2025
  • With Howell now set to enter the NFL draft, A&M will need to strike gold once again.
    — Tony Catalina, Austin American Statesman, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The Falcons hoped to strike gold with Ridder, a third-round pick out of Cincinnati in 2022.
    — Charles Odum, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2024
  • But Mattel’s effort to strike gold again comes at a difficult time for franchises in Hollywood.
    — Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Since the metaverse is still in its infancy, there is no clear path to profitability for most businesses; everyone is scrambling to strike gold first.
    — Michel Kilzi, Forbes, 20 May 2022
  • While not everyone will strike gold in the virtual world, the barrier to entry is relatively low for artists who want to see where these new paths to revenue will take them.
    — Gideon Kimbrell, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Outside the most rare handful of cards, retail investors and collectors are flipping back open their dusty collection books from 20 or more years ago and hoping to strike gold.
    — Brandon Gomez, CNBC, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The political spotlight also helped Johnson strike gold on the fundraising trail, pulling in $5 million through the primary.
    — Melissa Brown, The Tennessean, 1 Aug. 2024
  • And Claressa Shields, a two-time women’s middleweight champion, is the only American to strike gold in that span.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2024
  • Lee Jung-jae might be a cunning conman whose character was lucky to strike gold with the plentiful pot of the Squid Game prize money, but he’s also tied to a rich love life.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 30 Dec. 2024
  • As Soon-Shiong waited for one of his startups to strike gold, the losses on many of his businesses were deductible on his taxes, without being subject to such limits.
    — Paul Kiel, ProPublica, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The Bostonian helped the chain strike gold with their first ever Super Bowl ad, and now, coffee and donut enthusiasts everywhere can see what didn't make the cut.
    — CBS News, 13 Feb. 2023
  • However, success requires more than expansion, with those prioritising resilient, scalable, energy-smart solutions best positioned to strike gold in the long run.
    — Elena Bou, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
  • In the 1860s, white settlers flocked to what would become Marysvale, where the Deer Trail Mine is now located, with high hopes to strike gold, silver, and copper.
    — Lauren Steele, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Can senior director of international scouting Koby Perez strike gold with a big-money international amateur free agent who shoots to the majors quickly?
    — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 21 Aug. 2021
  • That doesn’t matter to New Orleans, which owes its first-round pick to Atlanta, but certainly matters to the Mavericks, who are trying to strike gold in the lottery for the second consecutive year.
    — Dallas Morning News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • And, it can be argued, 1994 was the last really good year before the era started to implode as the labels — and, in some cases, the artists themselves — began to sound like caricatures, trying to strike gold by copying what had worked before.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Big names such as Stanford and the University of California system lead the pack in patent activity, but hundreds of other universities are also trying to strike gold by monetizing intellectual property.
    — Joshua M. Pearce, The Conversation, 23 Apr. 2025
  • So is Miami’s dismal track record and inability to strike gold across the litany of hires from Cam Cameron to Tony Sparano to Joe Philbin to Adam Gase to Brian Flores to McDaniel.
    — Miami Herald, 19 Jan. 2026

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