WINDFALL in a Sentence

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10 example sentences for WINDFALL, such as:

1. An if I get a windfall, I thank my stars.
2. This royal renown sometimes drew down upon him singular windfalls.
3. The water treatment was new, now, and Tom's low condition was a windfall to her.
4. The early apples were now ripening, and the grass of the orchard was littered with windfalls.
5. Such an unexpected acquisition both of dead souls and of runaway serfs had come as a windfall.

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 Meanings and Examples of WINDFALL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
windfall
 n.  sudden, unexpected piece of good fortune or personal gain
Classic Sentence:
1  The water treatment was new, now, and Tom's low condition was a windfall to her.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  THE reader may rest satisfied that Tom's and Huck's windfall made a mighty stir in the poor little village of St. Petersburg.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
3  An if I get a windfall, I thank my stars.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
4  The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
5  Such an unexpected acquisition both of dead souls and of runaway serfs had come as a windfall.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
6  This royal renown sometimes drew down upon him singular windfalls.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN
7  He strolled out beyond the Salpetriere into deserted regions; that is where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always finds something.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
8  The early apples were now ripening, and the grass of the orchard was littered with windfalls.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
Example Sentence:
1  This huge tax refund is quite a windfall; we will go vocation by this money.
2  It was agreed without further argument that the milk and the windfall apples should be reserved for the pigs alone.