How to Use hoarding in a Sentence

hoarding

noun
  • This could also lead to hoarding.
    — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Your fire department might have a hoarding task force that can make a house call.
    — Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Read more about the pitfalls of talent hoarding—and how to avoid them—here.
    — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Vaccine hoarding is also to blame for the unequal roll-out of the jabs.
    — The Economist, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Your local fire department might have a hoarding task force that can make a house call.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The threat of war has sent prices in the region soaring, with many hoarding foodstuffs.
    — Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The hoarding of remedies isn’t limited to cough medicine and lozenges.
    — David Pierson, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Career hoarding isn’t going anywhere–but there are smart ways of doing it.
    — Tessa West, Fortune, 21 June 2022
  • Saied in the video called on traders to reduce prices of goods and warned them against speculating or hoarding.
    — Reuters, CNN, 28 July 2021
  • With hoarding, change is slow, happens in small steps and is like doing the cha-cha — two steps forward, one step back.
    — By Michael Roizen, M.d., and Mehmet Oz, M.d., Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • End of carousel Think about what — if at all — your role is in enabling their hoarding behaviors.
    — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
  • During a pandemic that has seen bursts of hoarding, this may be the most unexpected.
    — New York Times, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Among major employees, the current thinking seems to be staff hoarding.
    — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Animal hoarding is a unique type of neglect and cruelty.
    — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Some people say, yes, this is playing a huge role and corporate profits are quite high, profit hoarding.
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2022
  • But as the era of toilet-paper hoarding winds down, a little frivolity in gift-giving doesn’t seem so crass.
    — Eric Andersson, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Last year, rumors of shortages drove the hoarding of toilet paper and other supplies.
    — New York Times, 6 May 2021
  • Fire crews found what were believed to be heavy hoarding conditions obstructing the path to the basement, the district said.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • But the streaming numbers show the album’s strength is hardly all due to collectibility and hoarding.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Seattle artist Kelsey Melville‘s handmade snake planters are an argument for pot hoarding.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The only way to limit the power of the excessively wealthy is to stop the hoarding of excessive wealth.
    — Alan Davis, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Others forgot their potty training, regressed to food hoarding, or stopped eating.
    — Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Mom’s hoarding and Dad’s madcap inventions?
    — Amanda Uhle august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The shutdown sparked panic-buying and hoarding that has overwhelmed gas stations in the Southeast.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 12 May 2021
  • People often ask if her work is a form of protest against the hoarding of ethnographic objects, or a way of advocating for change.
    — Max Pearl, Vulture, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Over the course of eight, two-hour episodes, viewers will take a look inside of the lives of those living with and suffering from compulsive hoarding.
    — oregonlive, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Let’s face it, there’s a thin line between collecting and hoarding, and it’s called organization.
    — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 28 Nov. 2025
  • And in response, there was an all-too familiar amount of handwringing, hysteria and hoarding of staple goods.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2023
  • Sovereignty doesn’t mean stockpiling AI models or hoarding tools.
    — Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The cost of the liquor is typically much more elsewhere because of hoarding and speculation.
    — Laura He, CNN, 27 Aug. 2020

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