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[ US /ˈhɔɹ/ ]
[ UK /hˈɔː/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
    nodded his hoary head
    whose beard with age is hoar
NOUN
  1. ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)

How To Use hoar In A Sentence

  • Since corporate America is more interested in hoarding than rehiring, the New Poor are going to be around for awhile. Mark Olmsted: No Pizza, No Peace: The New Poor and the Coming Blowback
  • Ms. Miller's imprisonment for civil contempt of court was less a perfect storm — to use one of the press 'hoarier clichés to characterize a grim convergence of unpleasant events — as it was a brownout, a distressing midsummer sign that a full power outage is on its way. The Great D.C. Plame-Out, Or: Novak, Lord of the Journo-Flies
  • And he had hoped to avoid all this; or rather to hoard this seeing for one final gulp from the mailboat rail. At Swim, Two Boys
  • They also come across a cryptogram, which is rather difficult to solve, but which eventually they manage to decypher, and which leads them to the treasure hoarded by the pirate, who by that time has met his end. Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess
  • Photographs of Ayesha were appearing in all the papers, and the pilgrims even passed advertising hoardings on which the lepidopteral beauty had been painted three times as large as life, beside slogans reading _Our cloths also are as delicate as a butterfly's wing_, or suchlike. The Satanic Verses
  • Although he had not howled once, his snarling and growling, combined with his thirst, had hoarsened his throat and dried the mucous membranes of his mouth so that he was incapable, except under the sheerest provocation, of further sound. CHAPTER XVI
  • hoarse cries
  • It is the most highly capitalized company in the software business and has a huge cash hoard.
  • Last season finds included a hoard of four late bronze age socketed axes and the new art.
  • Modern Hopis and Navajos parade as hoary traditionalists, rightful stewards by ancestral occupance.
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