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