HORDE in a Sentence

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14 example sentences for HORDE, such as:

1. A horde of grimy children populated the street.
2. Before Christmas the store will treat a special horde of shoppers.
3. He plays like one possessed by a demon, by a whole horde of demons.
4. He admitted that he had stage fright at the thought of the coming horde.
5. Upon the old crooked burgess streets hordes of oldish blackened miners' dwellings crowded, lining the roads out.

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 Meanings and Examples of HORDE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
horde
 n.  a large group or crowd; wandering troop or gang; a moving crowd
Classic Sentence:
1  He admitted that he had stage fright at the thought of the coming horde.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
2  He plays like one possessed by a demon, by a whole horde of demons.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
3  A horde of grimy children populated the street.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
4  Many loyal field hands also refused to avail themselves of the new freedom, but the hordes of "trashy free issue niggers," who were causing most of the trouble, were drawn largely from the field-hand class.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  It was the "simple country wedding" to which guests are convoyed in special trains, and from which the hordes of the uninvited have to be fended off by the intervention of the police.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
6  The hordes of the way-train were not altogether new to Carol.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  The people had come in hordes; and old Durham had squeezed them tighter and tighter, speeding them up and grinding them to pieces and sending for new ones.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
8  Just so it was in Packingtown; the whole district braced itself for the struggle that was an agony, and those whose time was come died off in hordes.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
9  Some talked of gray, bewhiskered hordes who were advancing with relentless curses and chewing tobacco with unspeakable valor; tremendous bodies of fierce soldiery who were sweeping along like the Huns.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
10  This uproar explained a celestial battle; it was tumbling hordes a-struggle in the air.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
11  Upon the old crooked burgess streets hordes of oldish blackened miners' dwellings crowded, lining the roads out.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
Example Sentence:
1  Before Christmas the store will treat a special horde of shoppers.
2  What do you do when an obstreperous horde of drunken policemen goes carousing through your hotel, crashing into potted plants and singing vulgar songs?.
3  Panic quickly settled in, as I thought of serving cold food to hordes of famished family members, day after day and for weeks.