Words similar to hoary

Example sentences for: hoary

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

Furthermore, they seriously believe their jungles are genuine foreign languages--for example, Chinese--and hallowed by hoary antiquity.
In all of them, scenes of repressive formality (hoary English actors sipping sherry in drawing rooms) would be shattered by scenes of Dionysian release (Dracula or some other fanged entity swooping down in an animalistic frenzy), and an aristocratic figure of both science and Christian faith--usually the crisply self-satisfied Peter Cushing--would show up to lecture the frightened villagers and pound a stake through the heaving bosom of some temptress.
He justifiably laments the virtual disregard of statutory interpretation in law-school curricula, where the hoary common-law case-study method still predominates despite the fact that most law nowadays takes the form of statutes and regulations.
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.
One is to have answered the question honestly and hope the voters reward him on the hoary American principle that ya gotta love a guy who admits he's full of crap.