How to Use hoard in a Sentence

hoard

1 of 2 noun
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  • The irate hoard again attacked the Greyhound bus with bats and tire irons.
    — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2021
  • But the majority of the 300 coins in the hoard were missing.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2023
  • Boats and farms and hoards of tourists flourish in a place where water used to be scarce.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 July 2023
  • And, in this huge new hoard of letters, how many are addressed to Haynes?
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
  • So the Tahoe is a big box capable of hauling the hoard from your big box store runs.
    — Brett Berk, Good Housekeeping, 4 Apr. 2023
  • In the recent past, at least, its cash hoard was roughly as large as its debts.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The owner of the hoard buried it in a terra-cotta pot, which served as a sort of piggy bank.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 1 May 2023
  • But what if the hoard, as Bennett asked in her lecture, has more agency than that?
    — Morgan Meis, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
  • So the hoard of 425 gold coins was stowed in a clay jar, its lid secured with a nail, and stashed in the sands of what is now central Israel.
    — Marc Santora, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2020
  • At Prada, hoards of chicks were sliding their credit cards across the counter.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 7 July 2023
  • Even with a hoard of cap space, Stone must be a careful buyer this summer.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Berkshire’s cash hoard also grew to a record $157.2 billion.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The largest hoard is undoubtedly that of the Sultan of Brunei and his brother Prince Jefri.
    — Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Don’t expect a hoard of people to be standing in line on Black Friday.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • In a 1953 draft will that Campos found in the archives, Truman advised his wife, Bess, of a hoard of cash in a safe deposit box.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
  • If offered any money for the hoard, the young metal detectorist plans to split the proceeds with the field’s owner.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Some of the cars are modified, many remain original and, unlike many hoards of this size, there’s not a junker in the bunch.
    — Fox News, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Team USA ended Sunday with a hoard of medals, taking a commanding lead in the medal count.
    — oregonlive, 17 July 2022
  • But those deals are peanuts compared with what Apple might soon us its $28 billion cash hoard to nab.
    — Mike Ozanian, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • Then, when the frog wakes, its body redistributes this hoard of red blood cells within mere seconds.
    — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The entire hoard is smooth-faced with no discernable images.
    — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The French, for instance, are returning their hoard of Benin bronzes, some from the 16th century, to present-day Nigeria.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 4 Jan. 2020
  • Art experts have warned the hoard could be lost forever if the items are broken up and gemstones removed for sale.
    — NBC News, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Everyone hoards, even during the best of times, without even thinking about it.
    — Stephanie Preston, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2020
  • The entire hoard was covered with in 4,300 diamonds in total.
    — Kate Brady, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
  • The spread of the novel coronavirus has spurred panicked shoppers to hoard, of all things, toilet paper.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 19 Mar. 2020
  • For a gear nerd with my own small hoard of guitars, the results have proven nothing short of astonishing.
    — Parker Hall, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Over the years, treasure-hunters including Heinrich Himmler have searched for the hoard of Alaric.
    — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 9 June 2020
  • The national team collected a hoard of hardware over the weekend.
    — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2022
  • In the sixth century the chieftain attracted skilled artisans to the area, and later buried his large gold hoard.
    — CNN, 13 Sep. 2021
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hoard

2 of 2 verb
  • Program members would hoard points to save up for the splurge.
    — Len Covello, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The beast in Beowulf flew, flung fire, and hoarded treasure.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Give it to neighbors or teachers of friends or hoard it all for yourself.
    — Jessie Sheehan, Bon Appétit, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Attendees at the AmEx event won’t get to hoard their impressions of the show to themselves for long, though.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Dad has been hoarding Get Out of Jail Free cards for several turns.
    — Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Until then, keep in mind that the Devil’s close to perfect; eat your apricots, hoard your guns, and chase the lightning.
    — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The presence of marginalised people in the master’s house doesn’t change the system of hoarding power over others.
    — Brea Baker, refinery29.com, 6 Nov. 2023
  • And cities like Boston hoard not just money and jobs, but influence.
    — Kara Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2022
  • Jennifer and Jordan Turpin said their mother would buy children’s clothes, games and toys, but hoard them.
    — Christina Ng, ABC News, 18 Nov. 2021
  • However, there should be more than enough of the good stuff to supply the world in 2023, as long as people don’t start hoarding bottles.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Some hoard it and offer paid access back to us or just sell it wholesale to data brokers.
    — Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Analysts warned that the turmoil could lead to a run on Russian banks, as savers try to secure their deposits and hoard cash.
    — Mark Thompson, CNN, 28 Feb. 2022
  • As the richest men in the world continue to hoard their wealth, a question arises: Is there such a thing as a moral male billionaire?
    — Eli Grober, The New Yorker, 26 May 2022
  • Fortunately the country cannot hoard any more gas as its caverns are bursting at the seems along with those in the rest of Europe.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2022
  • His obsession was money—making it, hoarding it, wheedling it out of all and sundry.
    — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The presence of marginalized people in the master’s house doesn’t change the system of hoarding power over others.
    — Brea Baker, refinery29.com, 1 Nov. 2023
  • They were handed out so freely that a shopper had no reason to hoard them—there would always be more for their next shopping trip.
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Of course, the big question is which variants will be big problems and which ones will make people hoard toilet paper again.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Unlike the dragons of European myth, these do not hoard treasure, cannot breathe fire, and, lacking wings, cannot fly.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • In 2021, merchants began to hoard stuff like sugar, flour, and cooking gas cylinders.
    — Quartz, 3 May 2022
  • Humans are naturally hard-wired to hoard calories in case of famine (one that, in my case, never comes).
    — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 22 May 2021
  • That doesn’t mean hoard toilet paper tissue and hide out in your toilet paper teepee.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 12 June 2021
  • Connected teams who trust each other will achieve more than teams who hoard away knowledge.
    — John Estafanous, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • He’s been living inside my phone as an avatar for a potential short story about hoarding for the bad times ahead.
    — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • At this stage, businesses shouldn’t hoard their findings.
    — Michael Ashley, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2022
  • The once grand building is collapsing under the weight of centuries of evil and, more recently, decades of hoarding.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • But in truth, hoarding is a far deeper, more intractable disorder than that.
    — By Michael Roizen, M.d., and Mehmet Oz, M.d., Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • There’s the temptation to hoard data without having a clear reason why.
    — Manish Mistry, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Shops secretly hoard containers and sell them to those who know to ask — like an exclusive off-menu item.
    — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Instead of spending money, people are hoarding cash at a record rate.
    — Laura He, CNN, 11 May 2023

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