Example sentences for: hoary

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

  • She coached each to emphasize his manly strengths, relying on hoary, tired gender stereotypes.

  • The Anglophobia returns when he buys into hoary theories that America foolishly accepted the "Open Door Policy" in China because the British had conned Secretary of State John Hay.

  • Congratulations to Tamara Glenny and Robert D. Mare for getting from guts and glory to small and hoary in a victorious six links.

  • He also offers the hoary old `bitterness' or `rebelliousness' for Mary , whereas it is now thought that the name derives from the Hebrew root element MRH meaning literally `to be plump,' so in a transferred sense `strong,' `beautiful.

  • Furthermore, they seriously believe their jungles are genuine foreign languages--for example, Chinese--and hallowed by hoary antiquity.


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