All 4 Uses

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In Cold Blood
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The pheasant season in, Kansas, a famed November event, lures hordes of sportsmen from adjoining states, and during the past week plaid-hatted regiments had paraded across the autumnal expanses, flushing and felling with rounds of birdshot great coppery flights of the grain-fattened birds.†
Chpt 1

hordes = large numbers
Not far from River Valley Farm there is a mysterious stretch of countryside known as the Sand Hills; it is like a beach without an ocean, and at night coyotes slink among the dunes, assembling in hordes to howl.†
Chpt 1 *
Well, it must be a terrible experience-to be stared at by a horde of strangers, to have to walk among them, and them knowing who you are and what you did.†
Chpt 4

horde = a large number
They were both exceptionally personable, which perhaps explains why hordes of teen-aged girls had attended their trial.†
Chpt 4

hordes = large numbers

Definitions:

(1) (horde)
a very large number -- typically of people, animals, or insects on the move
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)