How to Use hoarder in a Sentence
hoarder
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Donald Trump was like a -- was a hoarder, or what is this?
—ABC News, 14 Aug. 2022
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One was given to Jeff Bezos, a great builder and hoarder of gold.
—Jack Butler, National Review, 17 Apr. 2021
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Gasperik agrees with that analysis and says, for him, his life as a hoarder began in the 1960s.
—Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2022
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So as to not give the wrong impression, Aroonsakool is by no means a hoarder.
—Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2023
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The apartment was first sealed last summer during a record heat wave and the lawsuit claims that Macek was a hoarder.
—Curbed, 15 May 2023
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Her apartment was a hoarder-like mess of books, thrift store finds and non-perishable food items.
—Nick Keppler, Men's Health, 22 Dec. 2022
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Patinkin hates the way his wife amasses old newspapers, like a hoarder.
—Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2021
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As a puppy, George lived in a hoarder house with countless other dogs.
—John Dickerson, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2021
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The play follows Sam (DeVito), a hoarder who is forced to clean up his home or be evicted.
—Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2022
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In this case, however, the hoarder dodged jail time by agreeing to release her pets.
—Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2022
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The hoarder solves the problem of value and attachment by holding on.
—Justin Torres, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
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The house had reportedly been owned by a hoarder before Reynolds bought it.
—Michael Hollan, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2020
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Their 38-year-old son, Patrick, nicknamed Trick, has pursued a monastic life in Nepal and Berlin, hoarder of his own secrets.
—Hamilton Cain, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
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Some blame the war in Ukraine; others blame hoarders and monopolies.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2023
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The inside of Pegasus is like a hoarder’s treasure trove.
—Elizabeth Myong, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
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Skip the poison baits, too, because chipmunks are hoarders.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 30 Aug. 2023
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These hoarders of influence lord their power to save us by doing nothing to save us.
—Hazlitt, 27 Sep. 2023
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Such feeders are effectively outdoor-cat hoarders, akin to the people who hoard cats in their dwellings.
—Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
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Meanwhile, her mother, a food hoarder, taught her the opposite: to eat in secrecy.
—Shanetta McDonald, refinery29.com, 27 Feb. 2023
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Collins’ lawyers argue Krill was elderly, a hoarder, and likely fell and hurt herself in her apartment.
—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2023
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An Emmy-winning production designer who was known to be a hoarder has been found dead under a pile of garbage in her New York City home.
—Fox News, 1 Apr. 2021
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Those who purchase Saver tickets are more budget-conscious than the average miles-and-points hoarder.
—Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2023
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According to Bennett, hoarders are highly attuned to these truths, which many of us ignore.
—Morgan Meis, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
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One of our residents is very private, and possibly a hoarder.
—Jill Terreri Ramos, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
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An alert data hoarder, a shrewd analyst, and a propulsive stylist, Davis views the hot-air balloon called the art world in a broad political context.
—Roberta Smith, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
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Soane Britain co-founder Lulu Lytle admits to being a terrific hoarder as a child.
—Helen Chislett, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2023
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On the saving-old-stuff spectrum, William Jensen fell somewhere between collector and hoarder.
—Star Tribune, 8 May 2021
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Following the death of his father, a boy begins hearing voices, and his mother becomes a hoarder.
—The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2021
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For aspiring or active at-home chefs and recipe hoarders (ahem, me), there are plenty of products that will give your kitchen a functional upgrade.
—Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
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And hoarders in particular view themselves as frugal rather than nuts.
—Marni Jameson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
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