WINDFALL in a Sentence

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THE reader may rest satisfied that Tom's and Huck's windfall made a mighty stir in the poor little village of St. Petersburg.

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 Meanings and Examples of WINDFALL
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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.