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a very large number — typically of people or animals/insects on the move- A horde of reporters descended on the small town.
horde = a large number
- Nobody could withstand Genghis Khan and the Mongolian horde.
- they all come bent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like sand.Habakkuk 1:9 (NIV)
- They are, certainly, more like a nation of saints than a horde of savages.Washington Irving -- The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West
- thick, swarming hordes of mosquitoes that flocked to his body, made a living coat on his exposed skin,Gary Paulsen -- Hatchet
- The rock against which the hordes of Asia dashed themselves in vain!George Orwell -- 1984
- There is a wood spewing drab hordes that run, stumble, jump.Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- Hordes of angels circle the air, viewing the carnage.Susan Ee -- Angelfall
- I turned to face Heath and Erik and the ghostly horde.P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked
- Jason pulled his young trainer to the side of the stampeding hordes, never for an instant taking his eyes off the darkened parking area.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- The heads swayed lower, thrusting forward like great serpents to loom over the battlefield and its huddling hordes of people.Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
- I was let go, only to stagger on the cellar steps, the horde of them behind me and in front of me, pushing me with menacing hands.Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire
- Some hordes of Indians are also found there, but in no great numbers.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
- Nothing wrong with race suicide and the incoming horde of foreigners?Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
- Again—the glorious defense to the death of the Alamo against the hordes of Santa Anna is a fact.John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
- For the briefest second, Max saw hordes of gaunt, starving creatures closing in upon them.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- He was going back to Sam, back to fight the horde of bloodthirsty newborn vampires.Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
- Loud creaks and groans announced a whole horde of Gladers running to the first floor.James Dashner -- The Maze Runner
- But your uncle is lord of a horde of wild robbers, and if I feed him and coddle him we are safe, and no one can show anger toward them.Pearl S. Buck -- The Good Earth
- I'll find a way to shield him from the black fly hordes that eat the bodies of men killed in battle.Homer -- The Iliad
hordes = a very large number
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