Hoard
hoard (verb) - secretly storing large quantities of scarce things
a hoard (noun) - a hidden collection of scarce things
a secret hoard
a vast hoard
coin hoards
a secret hoard
a hoard of wealth
hoard a stash of
hoard possessions
hoard them beneath the floorboards
hoarded for a rainy day
hoarding treasure for a rainy day
hoarded against a rainy day in the manner of Latin American dictators
hoard or share with others?
treasure hoard
hoarded treats in a desk drawer
hoarded in a dragon's cave
suspected of hoarding
hoarding food
food hoarded while others starved
hoarding dollars
labour hoarding
hoarding one's beauty
speculation and hoarding
hoarding goods
hoarding during a shortage
hoarding exacerbating a shortage
hoarded wisdom
hoarded misery
hoarded memories
hoarded like a bird
hoarded letters
hoarding the memory of each insignificant caress as a miser would hoard gold
the kind of acquisitive neurotic who would hoard a medieval cross or a Papuan shrunken head
had a lust for treasure and hoarded caches in lofty mountain caves
Example sentences:
* "She skipped lunch in order to go shopping, spending some of her carefully hoarded wages on a new outfit for the occasion."
* "The new laws appeared to be targeted particularly at black marketeers and speculators hoarding goods to create artificial shortages."
* "The purpose of this charge is to ensure that land with planning permission for housing is developed promptly, and to penalise the speculative hoarding of such land."
* "I've never met a rich man or woman yet who didn't have wonderfully imaginative, sophisticated, ways to justify hoarding yet a little more and a little more."
* "She still found herself hoarding the memory of each insignificant caress as a miser would hoard gold."
* "Shortages were exacerbated by the smuggling of petrol to neighbouring Benin, Cameroon, Chad and Niger as well as by local hoarding."
* The government could not feel happy that such an amount of food was hoarded on this island while millions of people were starving.
* "It was estimated that up to 80 per cent of grain was hoarded by farmers to barter for machinery and other goods."
* "It was a special meal and everyone contributed to it, either with money, something they cooked, or even their secretly hoarded treats."
* "All those words he had hoarded for so long and released so grudgingly."
* The miner's wife hoarded food away during the miners' strike.
* "Anonymous threats were frequently sent to those suspected of hoarding or of enhancing prices, or warnings to justices that unless they intervened direct action would be undertaken."
* "The shortages led to a tightening up of the rules preventing hoarding."
* "A new art gallery has been opened in memory of an eccentric antiques dealer who hoarded millions of pounds worth of paintings and other works of art."
* "In poor countries there may be enough food for the whole population but it is exported or hoarded because the people cannot pay for it."
* "Part of the increased money supply may be hoarded as the non-monetised sector (in some cases as large as 20 to 30 per cent of the economy) is brought within the monetary sector of the LDCs economy."
* The old man buried his hoard of gold coins in his backyard and it was not found for 300 years.
* A hoard of coins was included among the contents in the famous viking ship burial at Sutton Hoo in about AD 625.
* "Should you hoard your treasure or share it with others?"
* Then Mr. Smith together with his vast hoard of microfilms was flown to America.
* Yes, I have a little hoard of gold stored away just in case the world economy collapses.
* She was convinced that her grandfather had some secret hoard of wealth.
* "I had a hoard of 300 for emergencies."
* "Somehow she could not help but suspect that he would think it immoral to squeeze extra wages out of his stepfather, only to hoard them beneath the floorboards."
* "She was the kind of acquisitive neurotic who would hoard a medieval cross or a Papuan shrunken head."
* "Some people hoard receipts for years."
* "Helen postponed telephoning, as one might hoard some delicacy, to savour it the longer in anticipation."
* During the civil war between Pompey and Caesar in the first century BC, when hoarding was so prevalent that it caused a crisis of liquidity.
* "My son took to this dormitory life with all the fervour of a new convert, hoarding food (it tastes better after lights out)."
* "Labour hoarding is the practice of employing more labour than is actually required because firms do not wish to break the link between workers and the firm, thereby losing the skills acquired by workers over the years."
* "The twin caricatures of the King hoarding the nation's wealth and the Prince dissipating it had appeared in other works by the artist, but nowhere with greater effect than in these two productions of July 1792."
* "Rises in petrol prices, higher consumer demand during the Christmas season and the failed coup, which caused speculation and hoarding, had all combined to push prices up."
* "State enterprises had been hoarding goods rather than sell them at unprofitable retail prices, thereby exacerbating shortages in the shops."
* "Nor was there any question of hoarding treasure for a rainy day: a king's status was related to his generosity and to the display of wealth."
* "There was a vigorous black-market, and from time to time the authorities had to cajole citizens to cease hoarding gold. "
* "The anger remained in her, hoarded from the previous night when she had slammed the door on him."
* "He had hoarded the butt-ends of candles as another prisoner would hoard pieces of food."
* "He only smiled like one who hoarded a secret joke."
* "The griffin also had a lust for treasure and hoarded caches in lofty mountain caves."
* "Dollars and Western valuables were not hoarded against a rainy day in the manner of Latin American dictators."
* "Then Jesus went on to tell the Parable of the Rich Man who hoarded his possessions to make sure his future was secure."
* "That's a music lover returning from a trip to America, where he hoarded a vast stash of compact discs."
* "Others, conscious that they were eating the equivalent of a diamond brooch or a sapphire pendant, sat down to a last giddy meal eating before the Collector could get his hands on it, all at once, what they had hoarded for weeks."
* "In this fictional world the knight is seeking a magic pineapple, hoarded in a dragon's cave."
* "The secret, almost inaccessible haven where the black-robed savants hoarded the wisdom that sustained the people of Arcadia."
* "I spent every last penny of my hoarded misery that night, blew eighteen years' worth on one split second, and it felt better than anyone can ever be expected to understand."
* "She hoarded like a magpie."
* "What had happened to those carefully hoarded letters, she wondered, and who would tell Stan when he arrived?"
* "Though his first wife remains a shadowy and rather pathetic figure about whom one longs to know more, there is plenty here on the crowded, ramshackle household and its often hand-to-mouth existence constructed entirely around the demands of the workaholic, temperamental sculptor; the hoarded treasures, the art and music which pervaded the house, the much loved but somewhat casually raised children, the constantly changing and eccentric cast of live-in models, nannies, general factotums, portrait sitters, studio visitors, plaster moulders, musicians, friends and members of the press who were usually given short shrift."
* "The world's stock of nuclear-explosive material is dispersed and hoarded."
