fortune hunter

Example Sentences

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A modern-day historian described the hunting run in another more relatable way: White fortune hunters and settlers took his people’s grocery stores.

From Salon

Red Hook promises an even deeper and darker dungeon — 500 feet under! — as well as new enemies and a new gang of desperate fortune hunters willing to risk their sanity.

From Seattle Times

She called the matter a “horrific and vulgar fraud” perpetrated by a fortune hunter.

From Washington Post

On his tail are fortune hunters with rifles.

From Los Angeles Times

Fenn’s doggerel had seven times seven types of ambiguity, enough to keep an estimated 100,000 fortune hunters poring over it for a decade.

From Washington Post