How to Use mother lode in a Sentence

mother lode

noun
  • While all of Arizona attracts bats for at least part of the year, this is the mother lode.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2024
  • While their pro shop didn’t have much on sale, REI’s website is the mother lode of markdowns.
    — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2024
  • But back onboard The Dare, there’s no sign its crew will be stopping the search for the mother lode anytime soon.
    — Jay O'Brien, ABC News, 11 Nov. 2023
  • In the storm’s wake, the mother lode of numbing cold will crash south — likely to be the last but most bitter in brutal blasts since Christmas Eve in the Northeast.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2018
  • The Austrian capital was (apart from the Churchill) the mother lode of our collection.
    — Zofia Smardz, Washington Post, 26 July 2019
  • Foster got a rusty relic found in the crud from the pumpkin factory, and my father got a similar knife found by Foster in some other mother lode.
    — John Gould, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2022
  • If conversions are the mother lode of profitable marketing, what’s the best strategic approach to improving them?
    — Paul Talbot, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • And the only other cities in 2017 to remotely rival Houston’s mother lode of super-high-end athletic prowess would be those who also have NHL teams in the mix.
    — Dale Robertson, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Two-thousand-five-hundred miles west of Dodger Stadium was a mother lode of Dodgers memorabilia.
    — Lewis Abraham Leader, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The mother lode of winter storms has sent water blasting through rock crevices and rivers in the Sierra Nevada, leading to more glittering discoveries by prospectors.
    — Thomas Fuller Jim Wilson, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • This, along with a careful job of valve-train and ignition tuning, uncovered a mother lode of horsepower in the single-overhead-cam, four-cylinder engine.
    — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Being kind and realistic with themselves, finding time to connect with friends and nature, and asking for help are all ways to help manage the mother lode of stresses parents are under.
    — Kara Alaimo, CNN, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Related article Parents are up against the ‘mother lode’ of holiday stress.
    — Andrea Kane, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Related article Parents are up against the ‘mother lode’ of holiday stress.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
  • And while researchers have made huge gains in fostering a greater understanding of these majestic creatures in recent decades, the use of AI may have just cracked open the mother lode of all puzzles: thier language.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 7 June 2024
  • Cattle that once sold for $4 a head in Southern California was worth 25 times more in Northern California’s mother lode country.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2022
  • And the collection is still a meiofauna mother lode for contemporary researchers.
    — Adrienne Mason, Smithsonian, 2 Mar. 2018
  • From their inception, the Rockies have continually sought better pitching and seldom struck the mother lode.
    — Chuck Murr, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Demolition squads of scholars have stencil-brushed the casing and every wire of the corpus; warning tape encircles the mother lode of fifty books, which are still capable of sending readers sky-high.
    — Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
  • But for a noir of isolation and concealment, about how the past can often feel inescapable, these shadowy dugouts — Travis’ motel, a church and one character’s lonely lair — are an atmospheric mother lode.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Brands briefly digs below the surface to question whether Lindbergh and Roosevelt were sincere, but further digging would have unearthed a mother lode of insincerities.
    — Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Another natural focus of the NASA study is thawing permafrost, which, when melted, would release a mother lode of stored carbon and methane into the atmosphere.
    — National Geographic, 23 June 2016
  • But there may be other spots on the moon that could yield a mother lode of scientific data—as well as the resources needed to sustain human occupation of Earth’s celestial next door neighbor.
    — Leonard David, Scientific American, 31 July 2019
  • Many a stalwart Texan backed away after one look at the Tuscan red woodwork, lumbering swaths of green granite countertops, and mother lode of gaudy golds that once defined the interiors of this Dallas home.
    — Sally Finder Weepie, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 May 2022
  • The biennial’s emphasis on Chicago is all to the good, reversing the tendency of the first two exhibitions to treat the city as a backdrop rather than a mother lode that could be mined for comparisons, contrasts and connections with other cities.
    — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • This mother lode of findings comes after a six-year delving into genomes representing more than a million people, a quest for unusual genetic signals that track with one or more of 42 disorders and traits.
    — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 22 June 2018
  • So in our current environment, where mortgage rates skyrocketed from historic lows throughout the pandemic to a more than two-decade high in October last year, being mortgage-free is like hitting the mother lode.
    — Rachel Ventresca, Fortune, 6 June 2024
  • Brazilian paleontologists rediscovered a mother lode of fossils that had been lost for decades.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Soviet geologists discovered a diamond mother lode deep in the Siberian wilderness, and the company was founded soon after, in 1957.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 11 July 2018
  • Truly, America’s protean black musical mother lode has found expression in popular genres of its own invention—not string quartets, symphonies and operas.
    — Joseph Horowitz, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020

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