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mother lode

NOUN
  1. the main vein of ore in a deposit

How To Use mother lode In A Sentence

  • He scratched again and apparently hit the mother lode by the look of his nails. CORMORANT
  • Her own experiences have provided her with a mother lode of material for her songs.
  • Based in Walnut Creek and Lotus, Calif. - right by the mother lode that drew the forty-niners out West for the Gold Rush - AO Rafting seems isolated, deep in canyon country.
  • The principal vein is the mother lode, now a figure of speech as well as the name of one of the most famous deposits of the Californian Gold Rush.
  • The System's mother lode of heavy metals had been whittled away through millennia of astroengineering. The Ghost from the Grand Banks
  • No other writer I know mines the mother lode of what is condescendingly called ‘everyday life’ with such consistently surprising results.
  • What the Democrats do have is a mother lode of celebrity kibitzers, hangers-on, wannabes, kingmakers, cause-stars and flirts.
  • The Sharper Image catalog is a mother lode of men's gadgets and toys.
  • Loggers discovered the region's mother lode of timber in the 1960s and began cutting, especially old-growth pine.
  • It has spawned a mother lode of words and phrases that CEOs, financial analysts, and journalists alike have come to rely on to describe most things new in the business world.
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