hoariness

Example Sentences

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Horgan is the best thing about it, undercutting any hoariness with a curl of her lip or a withering aside.

From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2020

What assaults you instead is the fusty banality of the dialogue and the hoariness of the characters.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2012

Then he looked at his beard and seeing that the white hairs in it outnumbered the black, bethought himself that hoariness is the harbinger of death.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by Payne, John

The leaves of this variety are green, without any hoariness; long, narrow, and more sharply pointed than those of most of the other kinds.

From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Burr, Fearing

Quoth she, "I see thee dye thy hoariness," iv.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir