How to Use hoard in a Sentence

hoard

1 of 2 noun
  • The main thing is to scan, scavenge, and hoard scrap.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Around half the items come from Khelfa’s hoard of Alaïa pieces.
    — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Think of it as more room for your overflowing hoard of face masks and serums.
    — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 18 June 2026
  • In the recent past, at least, its cash hoard was roughly as large as its debts.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Boats and farms and hoards of tourists flourish in a place where water used to be scarce.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 July 2023
  • Here are a few jewels travelers may want to have in their hoard.
    — Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The irate hoard again attacked the Greyhound bus with bats and tire irons.
    — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2021
  • In simpler terms, that appears to just mean a hoard of bitcoin.
    — Dan Alexander, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • These sweet and savory recipe are a great way to use up your hoard—and keep you warm on a chilly snow day.
    — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 31 Jan. 2026
  • And, in this huge new hoard of letters, how many are addressed to Haynes?
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Bankhead spent the next two years recovering the hoard.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
  • The gray hoards his food, making caches of acorns and other nuts or burying them in the ground.
    — Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Its cash hoard of $1 billion will cover less than a year of those payments.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 9 June 2026
  • Even with a hoard of cap space, Stone must be a careful buyer this summer.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 20 Apr. 2023
  • So the Tahoe is a big box capable of hauling the hoard from your big box store runs.
    — Brett Berk, Good Housekeeping, 4 Apr. 2023
  • At Prada, hoards of chicks were sliding their credit cards across the counter.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 7 July 2023
  • This decision will inform the next steps for the hoard's future.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • But what if the hoard, as Bennett asked in her lecture, has more agency than that?
    — Morgan Meis, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The owner of the hoard buried it in a terra-cotta pot, which served as a sort of piggy bank.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 1 May 2023
  • Video shared by the department captured hoards of teens running away.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Video shared by the department captured hoards of teens running away.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Then, when the frog wakes, its body redistributes this hoard of red blood cells within mere seconds.
    — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Whoever is in front of the mic is surrounded by a hoard of teammates.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Except there was simply no more ignoring the hoard of junk my father had amassed in this tiny house.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Players can plunder a dragon’s hoard one week and battle an undead star fleet the next.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Berkshire is sitting on a record cash hoard of $344 billion.
    — Yun Li, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Everyone hoards, even during the best of times, without even thinking about it.
    — Stephanie Preston, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Players can find rare loot, hoard armor plates and complete mission with friends among other things in this new mode.
    — Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Eckhardt was nonetheless excited to learn more about the hoard.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Now, more than ever, social media serves as a critical entry point for hoards of new fans.
    — Ben Pickman, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025

hoard

2 of 2 verb
  • Don't hoard your PTO for one big trip.
    — Zach Wichter, Freep.com, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Program members would hoard points to save up for the splurge.
    — Len Covello, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • In other words, consumers should not hoard points, but rather, should use them.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Give it to neighbors or teachers of friends or hoard it all for yourself.
    — Jessie Sheehan, Bon Appétit, 9 Feb. 2022
  • In every food shock, the temptation is to hoard.
    — John W.h. Denton Ao, Fortune, 6 June 2026
  • All around him, there is misery and hoarded wealth, work and little love.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2025
  • If films are vital to our culture, then they must be shared, not hoarded and locked away.
    — Raj Tawney, IndieWire, 12 May 2026
  • But the sports world hoarded the glory of Robey for only so long.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
  • But neighbors told the outlet that dogs were being hoarded in the home for years.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Even if someone were able to go in and forcibly clean out her apartment, it could just get hoarded again.
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Because of that, critics say the result is wealth hoarding in these funds.
    — Sarah Agostino, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Even if your neighbor is hoarding, is the issue with mice building-wide?
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Connected teams who trust each other will achieve more than teams who hoard away knowledge.
    — John Estafanous, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Nobody is better at hoarding stocks.
    — John Hollinger, New York Times, 17 June 2026
  • Time off hoarding and snitching ensued.
    — Erika Ebsworth-Goold, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2026
  • Some hoard it and offer paid access back to us or just sell it wholesale to data brokers.
    — Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Because people are hoarding gold, the economy cannot get up from flat on the ground.
    — Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • That doesn’t mean hoard toilet paper tissue and hide out in your toilet paper teepee.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 12 June 2021
  • And cities like Boston hoard not just money and jobs, but influence.
    — Kara Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2022
  • His obsession was money—making it, hoarding it, wheedling it out of all and sundry.
    — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Instead of spending money, people are hoarding cash at a record rate.
    — Laura He, CNN, 11 May 2023
  • But in truth, hoarding is a far deeper, more intractable disorder than that.
    — By Michael Roizen, M.d., and Mehmet Oz, M.d., Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Even gold, which once was hoarded, has evolved into a base for lending and credit markets.
    — Luke Xie, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The instinct to hoard — to protect, to compete, to win at all costs — is everywhere.
    — Big Think, 7 May 2026
  • Bread was divided, not hoarded.
    — Alaa Alqaisi august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Second one is people will hoard energy.
    — CBS News, 4 May 2026
  • Second one is people will hoard energy.
    — CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The home was hoarded, covered in refuse and infested with insects.
    — Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Gold might appreciate in value, so people can hoard it.
    — Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The winners won't be the companies that hoard the most data or train the biggest models.
    — Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025

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