hoarded
Example Sentences
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Ironically, some of the more shareholder-unfriendly banks have a lot of capital because they hoarded the capital; they didn’t allocate it.
From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026
Undertaker Robert Bush hoarded dozens of bodies and half a tonne of human ashes.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026
The inverse was the case when Covid-19 shut the world down—people stopped traveling and hoarded canned soup and toilet paper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
He’s even selfishly hoarded toilet paper in his fancy adobe estate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025
She and her brother, Neeley, like other Brooklyn kids, collected rags, paper, metal, rubber, and other junk and hoarded it in locked cellar bins or in boxes hidden under the bed.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
