Sentence examples for the prospectors from inspiring English sources
noun
A person who explores or prospects an area in search of mineral deposits, such as gold.
Even the prospectors were skeptical.
Few of the prospectors struck it rich.
Clara and I called ourselves the Prospectors.
"I'd be a prospector of the prospectors.
(Lately, things have not panned out as well for the prospectors).
RISE ABOVE THE FRAY Why jump into the gold rush when you can sell picks and shovels to the prospectors?
Although it was estimated that some $2 billion in gold was extracted, few of the prospectors struck it rich.
* The people who benefited most were not the prospectors but those, like Levi Strauss, who outfitted and served them.
Exactly how the government will keep both the prospectors and landowners happy with its revised mining act is unclear.
In "The Prospectors," your story in this week's Summer Fiction Issue, two young women flee the Florida of the Depression to try their luck in Oregon.
