All 4 Uses of
horde
in
Not Without My Daughter
- Everywhere we went we encountered hordes of people, scurrying about their business, grim-faced.†
*hordes = large numbers
- Hordes of well-to-do young Iranians traveled abroad in those years.†
- "But this" he gestured to the horde of unsmiling Iranians scurrying through the streets of the ayatollah's Islamic Republic "is not what we wanted."†
horde = a large number
- Reeling from this assault of compliments, I went to the kitchen, concerned that I did not have enough food for the horde of unexpected guests.†
Definition:
a very large number -- typically of people, animals, or insects on the move