hoary

Example Sentences

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This hoary habit embodies the conservative philosophy of family life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

At its foundation, the movie is a hoary cliché with quirk spackled on it.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2025

These field exposure estimates informed subsequent studies on the impact of such exposure on hibernating bumble bee queens and the hoary squash bee, a solitary ground-nesting species.

From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2024

Other animals identified as a potential source of the pandemic were the masked palm civet, which was also associated with the Sars outbreak in 2003, as well as hoary bamboo rats and Malayan porcupines.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2024

It was a hoary restatement of Lamarck’s idea—of adaptation morphing directly into hereditary change—decades after geneticists had pointed out the conceptual errors of Lamarckism.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee