hoarded

Example Sentences

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Undertaker Robert Bush hoarded dozens of bodies and half a tonne of human ashes.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

A compensation reset was probably inevitable after companies hoarded talent and dangled big raises a few years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Over years of high inflation and currency controls, Argentines traded their battered pesos for dollars, which they often hoarded at home, in cash.

From Barron's • Jan. 2, 2026

Fans hoarded cases of the original formula, stockpiling them like precious artifacts.

From Salon • Aug. 28, 2025

Out of it came a stench, not the sickly odour of decay in the meads of Morgul, but a foul reek, as if filth unnameable were piled and hoarded in the dark within.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien