How to Use windfall in a Sentence

windfall

noun

• They received a windfall because of the tax cuts.
• The slope of the hill provided good drainage, and the windfall would have kept the worst of the snow off him.
  — Ben East, Outdoor Life, 28 Nov. 2024
• The windfall was one of a few big lottery wins in the Peach State this week.
  — Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 26 June 2025
• But for the places that got it right time, these last two year have brought a windfall.
  — Michael Croley, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2022
• All components of the IRS have lined up for their share of the windfall.
  — William Henck, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024
• The windfall would be huge if these could be mined in abundance and brought to Earth.
  — Jonathan O’Callaghan, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
• The biggest windfall of all, though, has been a $35 million grant from the city.
  — Esther Wang, Curbed, 17 Dec. 2021
• The school is expected to use the windfall to help pay down its debts.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2022
• The prize money from the contest would be a sweet windfall.
  — Sean Clancy, Arkansas Online, 29 Nov. 2020
• Prepare to receive a windfall as the moon and Jupiter align.
  — USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
• At the urging of his son, Evans then contacted the state park to share the news of his windfall.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 25 Dec. 2023
• The size of the senior partners’ windfall has been reduced as the plan has evolved.
  — Jean Eaglesham, WSJ, 20 June 2022
• The windfall comes as Trump is mired in a slew of legal cases.
  — Rafael Nam, NPR, 25 Mar. 2024
• Quite a windfall if Big Blue could land him and Thibodeaux.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2022
• The lottery player has plans on how to use her windfall of cash.
  — Makiya Seminera, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2024
• That federal windfall is both good news and bad for the state.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 May 2021
• For most of the hitters, the wind was a windfall as six players had multi-homer games.
  — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2025
• If the group doesn't get a windfall of a half-million dollars soon, SOUL will close its doors at the end of next month.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2025
• But the rapid rise in oil prices was an enormous windfall for OPEC members.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 23 Feb. 2021
• So for many governments this is just a big windfall to spend.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 13 Mar. 2021
• How a tech billionaire’s bid to uplift the poor became a windfall for the rich.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2022
• So, what will the student do with his newfound windfall?
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 12 Nov. 2021
• Now the on-field bounty must match the financial windfall.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
• Two councilmembers on the North Side have put forward their own plans for the windfall.
  — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Aug. 2022
• With his windfall, Wallen has now earned 11 Hot Country Songs top 10s.
  — Jim Asker, Billboard, 19 Jan. 2021
• Who could possibly be against this windfall of cash and fun?
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
• In times of windfall – and of discontent – governments know what to do: Spread the wealth.
  — Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2022
• But $2,000 a month would have been a windfall for the family, said Smith's wife, Helen.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, USA TODAY, 9 June 2022
• An inheritance often is seen as a financial windfall, but there are times when people may want to consider saying thanks, but no thanks.
  — Medora Lee, USA Today, 27 June 2025
• This could mean a financial windfall, an intense emotional breakthrough or a shift in a close relationship.
  — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 24 June 2025