word-hoard
Example Sentences
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And then, around Page 15, the wheels bust off this narrative, and we’re airborne: “Grown Boy came into his own voice and let loose his word-hoard pent up within him.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2019
Next we find Little Boy became Grown Boy, who “came into his own voice and let loose his word-hoard pent up within him.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2019
“The Essex Serpent” is also an example of what the nature writer Robert Macfarlane calls “a word-hoard of the astonishing lexis for landscape.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2017
“I intend to rally my memory and write in these pages you provide a small word-hoard of my own,” Cockcroft wrote.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 10, 2017
Every writer faces the challenge of finding a superlative in the English word-hoard that has not been inflated by hyperbole and overuse.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
