How to Use horde in a Sentence

horde

noun

• A horde of tourists entered the museum.
• Hordes of reporters were shouting questions.
• There used to only be a few geese at a time, not hordes.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• On fourth-and-goal from the 1-yard line, Taylor was stuffed at the goal line by a horde of teal jerseys.
  — New York Times, 9 Jan. 2022
• The center has to repel the extremist hordes on both sides.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2023
• The onslaught from a horde of hungry rivals will soon shatter the myth.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2022
• The winds riled up hordes of bees and wasps, whose angry stings filled emergency rooms.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
• Escaping a zombie horde from Army of the Dead in an EV pickup truck?
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 2023
• Along the way, hordes disembarked, with the determined, brisk gait of those with somewhere to be.
  — Victoria Kim Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• Out jumped not local police, but a horde: 15 men armed with bats and axes.
  — Alexander Sammon, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2022
• But lately, Section 230 has acquired a horde of enemies, from both the left and the right.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2022
• Roku is just one of a horde of digital players hoping to shave off a chunk of TV’s ad base.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 1 May 2023
• That’s the question a horde of gene editing researchers are chasing.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 27 July 2023
• Sig makes a huge deal for 25 tons of live king crab; Mandy goes to buy a new boat; Sig and Jake head to the Russian line to find a migrating horde.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2022
• Numbering in the thousands, the horde of worms stretched the length of two football fields and was thick enough to cover the seafloor like shag carpet in spots.
  — Mark Price, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2023
• That trap was designed to kill everyone vis-a-vis a horde of zombies.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Over time, the human genome has amassed a horde of these viral hitchhikers.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2022
• The guy refuses, despite William's threats, and returns home to find a horde of buzzing flies in his walk-in closet.
  — Ashley Boucher, EW.com, 27 June 2022
• While there are hordes of tennis shoes on the market, the Adidas sneaker has become the inescapable shoe of the summer.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 25 July 2023
• When a horde of flesh-eating shoppers infests a toy superstore, it’s on the retail staff to save the day.
  — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Nov. 2022
• The red planet has played home to H. G. Wells' jealous invading horde.
  — Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2022
• What do the Krampus, a horde of undead elves, bloodthirsty changelings, and William Shatner have in common?
  — Huntley Woods, EW.com, 2 Dec. 2022
• No one is on solid ground in those two areas right now — Zaidi and Melvin would only be able to hold off the horde for so long.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
• Ahmed teams with artist Joey Vazquez for a manic story that pits Kamala against a zombie horde.
  — Joe George, Men's Health, 14 June 2022
• Players will be able to team up with other squads to fight zombie hordes in the largest Call of Duty zombies map yet.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
• On July 21, discordant hordes dressed in hot pink or black flocked to theaters.
  — Sasha Richie, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
• The horde of Roth fans saw their opportunity and did not squander it.
  — Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• At the time, the hordes of men who fled Russia to avoid conscription attracted the most attention.
  — Milana Mazaeva, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2023
• On a summer night in the Bay of Naples, hordes of worms swam upward from the seagrass toward the water’s surface under the light of a waning moon.
  — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
• Take some easy hikes in the Wonderland of Rocks, finishing up just as the thundering hordes start pouring in.
  — Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024