Hoard

//hɔɹd//

"Hoard" in a Sentence (17 examples)

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.

Tom found a hoard.

The piano tuner discovered a hoard of gold coins hidden under the piano's keyboard.

Top executives used loopholes to hoard more money and power for themselves.

Many of the best math professors hoard chalk.

Why does he hoard so much useless stuff in his flat?

Why does Benjamin hoard old newspapers?

Why do you hoard so much junk at your place?

Why do you hoard so much rubbish in your flat?

Fearful of disaster, Mary began to hoard food and supplies.

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a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money

Be ye not willing to hoard to you gold hoards on earth, where rust and moth fortake it, and where thieves delve it and forsteal, […]

Occasionally Scots and Irish coins are also found. The gold hoards consist entirely of crown gold unites, half unites and quarter unites from the reigns of James I and Charles I.

The days have vanish’d, tone and tint, ⁠And yet perhaps the hoarding sense ⁠Gives out at times (he knows not whence) A little flash, a mystic hint; […]

Be ye not willing to hoard to you gold hoards on earth, where rust and moth fortake it, and where thieves delve it and forsteal, […]

When we have new perception we shall gladly disburthen the memory of the hoarded treasures as old rubbish.

Eventually, the wooden hoards gave way to similar stone constructions called bretèches. These served exactly the same purpose as the hoard, sometimes being built over the same corbel brackets that had once supported hoards[…]

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