Example sentences for: hoard

How can you use “hoard” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Rather than easing the transition from welfare to work, states hoard block grants and dodge their obligations to the poor.

  • About 1,000 items — a mere 15 percent of the total hoard — are now on display here.

  • Sports junkies hoard trivia for the same reason political junkies lock their remotes on C-SPAN and Hollywood obsessives salivate over the Academy Awards pre-game show: Power.

  • 2. Hard sales data might eliminate a cash hoard publishers have secured for themselves.

  • Descended from light-skinned slaves who enjoyed a privileged position in the plantation hierarchy, the "black elite" continues to hoard access to its boarding schools, social events, and churches: "Why," asks one pedigreed lady, "would I be socializing with some caseworker or mailman who goes to NAACP events?"


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