Example sentences for: hoarding

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

  • A NYT front-pager warns that the social ill effects of fearing the Y2K problem--such as bank runs, hoarding of food and gas, fires caused by newly acquired wood stoves and a rise in gun violence accompanying the upsurge in gun sales to those fearing post-millennial-bug civil unrest--could end up being much worse than any pure outcome of the problem itself, especially since the actual problem is being attacked with billions of dollars of remediation.

  • "As improbable yet as irresistible as any beach book you may be hoarding" ( USA Today ). Encomiums for the show compare it to Law & Order and NYPD Blue , which "have made the '90s a golden era of TV crime dramas" (Howard Rosenberg, the Los Angeles Times ).

  • hoarding knowledge to sharing knowledge,

  • Blacks resent Hispanics' perceived hoarding of scarce public-school funds.

  • It remains to be seen whether hoarding books will prove as effective as self-starvation.


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