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How to use hoard in a sentence

23 example sentences · noun, verb

Hoard means a hidden supply or fund. Example: “I aggroed the dragon by stealing from its hoard, and it killed me.”

Examples of hoard by meaning

nounA hidden supply or fund.

  • a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money
  • The gold hoards consist entirely of crown gold unites, half unites and quarter unites from the reigns of James I and Charles I.1968, Seaby's coin and medal bulletin, numbers 593-604, page 198

verbTo amass, usually for one's own private collection.

  • When we have new perception we shall gladly disburthen the memory of the hoarded treasures as old rubbish.1914, Margaret Bird Steinmetz, Leaves of Life

nounA projecting structure (especially of wood) in a fortification, somewhat similar to and later superseded by the...

  • Eventually, the wooden hoards gave way to similar stone constructions called bretèches.1993, Christopher C. Henige, Church Fortification in the Périgord

More sentences with hoard

  • I aggroed the dragon by stealing from its hoard, and it killed me.From the entry aggro
  • I don't think he collects as much as hoards.From the entry collect
  • The latest date on a coin in a hoard of objects is the earliest possible date of its deposit: the terminus post quem of its deposit.From the entry terminus post quem
  • And like everything else that's increasingly scarce, it behooves us to hoard our stash.2025 February 2, Charles Hugh Smith, Begging Bowl '25: I'm Looking for Two Readers Willing to Help Me Buy a New Thrift-Store Shirt. From the entry honesty
  • My father's attitude toward his hoard was that it was almost found money.2013, Raymar Rodriguez, The Little Red Book of Financial Happiness: Life After Prison, page 62. From the entry found money
  • After this there is a big battle: armies converging on the mountain and its now undragoned hoard.2013, Adam Roberts, The Riddles of The Hobbit, page 95. From the entry undragoned
  • The flesh of black walnuts was a protein-packed winter food carefully hoarded in tall, stilted buildings.2003, Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Arboretum America: A Philosophy of the Forest, page 81. From the entry flesh
  • Tenth-century hoards still consist mainly of coins from Central Asia, but with variable amounts of hacksilver.2001, The Early Slavs: Culture and Society in Early Medieval Eastern Europe. From the entry hacksilver
  • The hoard evidently belonged to a merchant who was forced to hide it in an emergency.1998, Jonathan Karam Skaff, “Sasanian and Arab-Sasanian Silver Coins from Turfan: Their Relationship to International Trade and the Local…. From the entry Wu-ch'ia
  • This pen's blue ink comes out unfluidly, not "grudgingly" — the pen does not hoard.1990, Gerald Burns, A thing about language, page 64. From the entry unfluidly
  • No Jute is left to wield a sword to save this hoard.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 40. From the entry jute
  • Then the old scourge of dusk swooped down upon the warderless hoard.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 40. From the entry shrieking
  • The coin of Berytus in the Salamis hoard likewise is paralleled by the Berytan coins found at Kourion.2004, The Roman Coinage of Cyprus, page 151. From the entry Berytan
  • He also marvels at a hoard of holy relics, begrieving the lack of care shown by their new keepers.1989, Sven-Olof Lindquist, Birgitta Radhe, Economy and Culture in the Baltic, 1650-1700. From the entry begrieve
  • Instead of unhauling all the books that we’ve read or no longer bring us joy, we hoard sentences and tabs like the author-monsters we are.2022, Sacha Black, The Anatomy of a Best Seller: 3 Steps to Deconstruct Winning Books and Teach Yourself Craft, […]. From the entry unhaul
  • The older girls had swarmed into the kitchen, turning hoarded sugar and flour into kugel, Sacher torten, and an only modenately successful apfelstrudel.2002, Mona Golabek, Lee Cohen, chapter 25, in The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and…. From the entry sacher torte
  • Proposing to exchange my toys for shares of the Halloween spoils he hoarded, I would discandy him first, swallow hard, then renege.2001, Arthur Michael Saltzman, Objects and Empathy: Essays, page 208. From the entry discandy
  • What Ferdinand would hoard, she circulates.1996, Frank Whigham, Seizures of the Will in Early Modern English Drama, page 201. From the entry earnable
  • And the kitchen-drawer ching, Playing the countless changes, and The fetes one plans, coveting The wrapped hoards of the traders, and thinking "The ravenly winter is all yours."1949, Rosalie Moore, The grasshopper's man. From the entry ravenly

Meaning of hoard

  1. noun A hidden supply or fund.
  2. noun A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove.
  3. verb To amass, usually for one's own private collection.

Full definition of hoard

Questions about hoard in a sentence

How do you use hoard in a sentence?
Hoard is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I aggroed the dragon by stealing from its hoard, and it killed me.”
What is a short sentence with hoard?
“What Ferdinand would hoard, she circulates.”
What does hoard mean?
Hoard means a hidden supply or fund.

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