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  • Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.  (source)
  • They are hoarding oil with an expectation of a price increase.
  • Hoarded political capital loses value.
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  • 'It's my secret hoard,' he whispered.  (source)
    hoard = gathers something valuable and stores it
  • 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
  • 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
  • She remembered staring straight up at the bed hoards.†  (source)
  • He is a face on the hoardings, a voice on the telescreen.†  (source)
  • "Hoarder" hadn't entered everyday parlance, but Mamaw fit the bill, and her tendencies only worsened as she withdrew from the world.†  (source)
    Hoarder = someone who gathers valuable things and stores them
  • Compared to some parts of his house, which looked like hoarders lived there, his dresser could have passed a Marine Corps Boot Camp inspection.†  (source)
  • "Then bruised in his bosom he with bitter-toothed missile Is hurt 'neath his helmet: from harmful pollution He is powerless to shield him by the wonderful mandates Of the loath-cursed spirit; what too long he hath holden 5 Him seemeth too small, savage he hoardeth, Nor boastfully giveth gold-plated rings,[1] The fate of the future flouts and forgetteth Since God had erst given him greatness no little, Wielder of Glory.†  (source)
    hoardeth = gathers something valuable and stores it
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She hoardeth" in older English, today we say "She hoards."
  • But the enchanted desire of the hoard had fallen from Bilbo.  (source)
    hoard = collection of valuable things
  • Other guys hoarded routes that gave tips, or had addresses near their homes, so they could knock off for lunch.  (source)
    hoarded = to gather something valuable and save it
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