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.

  • He which hath no stomach to this fight, And hideth in the tall grass, like a damn girl, Let him depart; I'll get him a job at CNN, Where mine appalling comments about the dusky Moor And olive-skinned Levantine (and working maidens fair, And--no one's really glommed onto this yet-- My disparagement of those men of right good male fellowship, Who doth hoard original-cast albums of Broadway musicals, If ya know what I mean) serves but to raise my fees on Crossfire . Forsooth, 'tis a rich scam!

  • 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.

  • Only imagine it as thinking: Let the frat boys hoard how her fingertips have eased the hidden lips back to the moist interior, let themsmuggle home to other women pale simulations

  • 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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