Sample Sentences for
hoard
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    They are hoarding oil with an expectation of a price increase.
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    But maybe if I stayed close to him, made him see me as a real person, the way the Czechs saw us, maybe when I asked him tonight for bread he would take pity on me and give me some of his hoard.  (source)
    hoard = stored supply
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    'It's my secret hoard,' he whispered.  (source)
    hoard = gathers something valuable and stores it
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    Did you expect me to trot back with the whole hoard of Thror on my back?  (source)
    hoard = collection of valuable things
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    THIS IS A REMINDER TO MALE ELEVENS THAT OBJECTS ARE NOT TO BE REMOVED FROM THE RECREATION AREA AND THAT SNACKS ARE TO BE EATEN, NOT HOARDED had been specifically directed at him, the day last month that he had taken an apple home.  (source)
    HOARDED = to gather something valuable and store it
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    But everything else was motionless, dry as biscuit, on the brink of burning, hoarding final reservoirs of sap, trying to hold out till the rain returned, and Queen Anne's lace lay dusty on the surface of the meadows like foam on a painted sea.  (source)
    hoarding = storing
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    She remembered staring straight up at the bed hoards.†  (source)
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    Driving that day, mile after mile, up the smooth, strategic road, past the vineyards and military posts and the new, white settlements and the early crops already standing high in the vast, open fields, and the hoardings advertising the staples of France— Dubonnet, Michelin, Magasin du Louvre—I had thought it all very suburban and up-to-date;†  (source)
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    "Hoarder" hadn't entered everyday parlance, but Mamaw fit the bill, and her tendencies only worsened as she withdrew from the world.†  (source)
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    His room looks like one of those rooms on Hoarders.†  (source)
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    He shuffled them and tacked them up on the bulletin hoard.†  (source)
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    The only part that impressed me out of the whole article was about the crazy lady in the sanitarium who hoarded food and sheets and towels and...  (source)
    hoarded = gathered to store (as though they were things of great value)
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    When I read it, I thought of Will's sister, Cara, accusing my mother of hoarding goods.†  (source)
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