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How to use horde in a sentence

36 example sentences · noun, verb

Horde means a wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people (originally Tatars) migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude. Example: “We were beset by a horde of street vendors who thought we were tourists and would buy their cheap souvenirs.”

Examples of horde by meaning

nounA large number of people or things.

  • We were beset by a horde of street vendors who thought we were tourists and would buy their cheap souvenirs.
  • It is true, the more progressive members of our horde lived in the caves above the river.1907, Jack London, Before Adam, Chapter IV
  • And so Tarzan of the Apes dropped lightly to the turf into the midst of the fierce and hideous horde—he had completed the cycle of evolution, and had returned to be once again a brute among brutes.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 197

More sentences with horde

  • A horde of zeds began to shuffle into the shopping mall.From the entry zed
  • The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly.From the entry penurious
  • Karen's new students thought treat day was a feeding frenzy and horded the snack table.From the entry feeding frenzy
  • He cast it out, scooping coatfuls of the fluttering horde out of the air.2013, James Rollins, Rebecca Cantrell, Innocent Blood, →ISBN. From the entry coatful
  • If you are among those behatted hordes and live in Texas, chances are yours is a Resistol.1984, Peter Applebome, “Texas Primer: The Resistol Hat”, in Texas Monthly, 6/1984. From the entry behatted
  • The oncoming horde berserked through the mine field, York field pieces going off in all directions.1959, Francis Leary, “Rene and Marguerite d’Anjou: the tragic geste”, in The Golden Longing, London: John Murray […], published 1960, page…. From the entry berserk
  • This is worse than hordes of WebTVers posting in html.2023 August 10, El Kabong, “Dear Michael”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Dec 2025. From the entry WebTVer
  • The elder Cobos became over-cruel in his handling of the miserable horde, and several very unpleasant occurrences led to tragedy.2013, William Albert Robinson, Deep Water and Shoal. From the entry overcruel
  • And as he sat on the antique exerbike parked outside, a horde of nattily attired cyclists pedaled past, headed down Elm.2010 November 22, Robert Wilonsky, “Re-Tweed: Scenes from a Bike Ride (And Dealey Plaza And Lake Cliff Park And Other Stuff)”, in Dallas…. From the entry exerbike
  • Rather than hire hordes of people to click banner ads, some website operators run automated programs known as autoclick software.2006, Wally Wang, Steal this Computer Book 4.0. From the entry autoclick
  • Like Coquelin's ‘Norman’, Phaedrus' bumpkin is a typically ‘adoxographical’ hero (the inglorious written up): one facing a horde.2001, John [Graham Wilmot] Henderson, Telling Tales on Caesar: Roman Stories from Phaedrus, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 126. From the entry adoxographical
  • The Guest Book has a horde of other memoryful signatures.1909 May, The Circle and Success Magazine, page 281. From the entry memoryful
  • The singer had an electrifying and unpredictable onstage presence and a dry sense of humor that endeared him to hordes of adoring fans.2025 July 22, Kory Grow, “Ozzy Osbourne obituary: The Godfather of Heavy Metal who changed the world”, in Rolling Stone. From the entry electrifying
  • Compared to last year when hordes of prisoners died for Bakhmut, Russia's losses come in the majority now from the rows of mobniks.2023 November 21, Michael Weiss, Twitter. From the entry mobnik
  • I nevertheless enjoyed reminiscing with Frank Rizzo Jr., who was watching with astonishment as hordes of people continued to traipse through his family home.2019 January 3, Michael Smerconish, “The Nixon letter I can’t forget”, in CNN, archived from the original on 23 Oct 2021. From the entry Rizzo
  • The new kids will be over as soon as they get too old and the adolescent hordes find someone new to follow.2019 September 1, Ty Burr, “Famous now vs. famous then”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 296, number 63, page N9. From the entry VSCO girl
  • In any case, your five rhinocerotes won’t be appearing, nor will we stalely fellow them, we will be busy accrediting my hordes.2016, John Bloomberg-Rissman, In the House of the Hangman, volume 2, Laughing/Ouch/Cube/Publications, →ISBN, page 743. From the entry rhinocerotes
  • Nearly a century ago, my grandfather passed through Istanbul en route to Europe along with hordes of other White Russians fleeing the Russian civil war.2014 July 21, Ivan Watson, “Loud, anarchic, quirky: My love affair with Istanbul”, in CNN, archived from the original on 20 Feb 2026. From the entry en route
  • Hordes of “Sheerios” descended on Huntington village Saturday night after star Ed Sheeran announced he would play a surprise concert at The Paramount that evening.2014 July 10, Danny Schrafel, “‘Sheerios’ Conquer Huntington”, in Half Hollow Hills Newspaper, volume 16, number 22, archived from the…. From the entry Sheerio
  • But he was a financial ingenue with a newly minted horde of money, a horde that got much, much bigger after the Arab oil em-bargo.2004, Jonathan Beaty, S. C. Gwynne, The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride Into the Secret Heart of BCCI, Beard Books. From the entry Jed Clampett
  • But on one major point, neo-Luddites agree: They would loathe computerization even if hordes of unwitting neo-Luddites hadn't suddenly made technophobia so trendy.1995 July, Bob Ickes, “Die, Computer, Die!”, in New York, →ISSN, page 24. From the entry technophobia
  • And serve the bureaucratic horde right (we thought) if the goat turned out to be a descendant of the Great Black Goat of Buzangay!1948 February 25, D. B. Wyndham Lewis, “Standing By...”, in The Tatler and Bystander, London, page 242, column 1. From the entry hubbuboo
  • Less appetizing were the hordes of green, shiny muck-flies which were to be found all over the island, even amid the thickest tussock.1940, Erling Christophersen, translated by RL Benham, Tristan da Cunha, The Lonely Isle, page 200. From the entry muck fly
  • Usually to try to set himself apart from the horde of ASVAB waivers and Crayon eaters in the Corps — the orange ones taste the best.2017 November 10, James Clark, “7 Other Honors The Marines Should Dish Out During The Birthday Ball”, in Task & Purpose. From the entry ASVAB
  • After footage broke of a zombie pyrokinetically burning a bus full of survivors in Beijing before a horde fed on them, most people knew it was the apocalypse.2013, Steven Mix, Goodbye from the Edge of Never, page 18. From the entry pyrokinetically
  • “Jim, let me give you a fer instance, imagine hordes of vicious scorpions and rattle snakes with wings and that is exactly what you guys are dealing with.2012, Al Vasquez, A Sniper’s Trail, Windmills International Editions, Inc., →ISBN, pages 82–83. From the entry fer instance
  • Then in the Da Yu ting there is the record of a man who received land and grants of a chariot and horses, clothing and a horde of slaves.2011, Amit Bhattacharyya, “A Note on the Sources”, in The Chinese Civilization Hsia to the Ch'in Dynasty 2207 BC-206 BC, Rachayita, →ISBN…. From the entry Chishan
  • Noman's men were doing a fair job at holding back the hordes but Noman could see that there were many more hordesmen in the distance moving slowly towards them.2008, R. A. Knowlton, Knorrasky: The Deception, Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry hordesman
  • Athens had blossomed from tyranthood into democracy, the invading Persian hordes had been broken and dispersed, the city itself had become the political and cultural center of Greece.1990, Paul Roche, Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound. From the entry tyranthood
  • Hordes of shadow people, adult and child, milled from one end of this yellowing old room to the other, stopping to hunch over assorted fantasy devices.1977, New West, page NQ-2. From the entry twock
  • Romanus at once took the field against the Seljukian hordes, who were now devastating Cappadocia with fiendish cruelty, and had just captured Caesarea and plundered the shrine of St.1921, T.F. Tout, The Empire and the Papacy, 918-1273, page 107. From the entry Seljukian
  • But things are about to change: hordes of bloodlusted enemies, swarms of scary monsters and crowds of rebellious peasants at any second can bring some life to your working schedule.2021 December 2, Gavin Sheehan, “Diplomacy Is Not An Option Set For Release In January 2022”, in Bleeding Cool, archived from the original…. From the entry bloodlusted
  • There rose a fabled horde of mounted lancers and archers bearing shields bedight with bits of broken mirrorglass that cast a thousand unpieced suns against the eyes of their enemies.1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian. From the entry bedight

Meaning of horde

  1. noun A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people (originally Tatars) migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.
  2. noun A large number of people or things.
  3. verb To travel en masse; to flock.

Full definition of horde

Questions about horde in a sentence

How do you use horde in a sentence?
Horde is used as a noun and verb. For example: “We were beset by a horde of street vendors who thought we were tourists and would buy their cheap souvenirs.”
What is a short sentence with horde?
“The Guest Book has a horde of other memoryful signatures.”
What does horde mean?
Horde means a wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people (originally Tatars) migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.

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