How to Use horde in a Sentence

horde

noun

• A horde of tourists entered the museum.
• Hordes of reporters were shouting questions.
• Now, where were the hordes we were supposed to worry about?
  — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 5 July 2019
• And amid the horde was Delaney, who had eight people with him.
  — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2019
• Shouldn’t this place be ransacked by hordes of tourists every hour of every day?
  — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 22 July 2019
• Better to be part of the horde, to make the earth shake under the hooves of your horses.
  — Jacob Mikanowski, Harper's magazine, 21 July 2019
• Once a year, hordes of flying ants invade Britain – and this year was no exception.
  — Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY, 18 July 2019
• The distinct smell of cooking and fermenting grain wafting down the street is enough to drive hordes to the distillery daily.
  — al.com, 9 July 2019
• At the same time, hordes of swimmers and surfers enter the water, some inadvertently finding the rays.
  — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2019
• Wet weather is to blame for the hordes of grasshoppers that have descended upon Las Vegas this week.
  — Fox News, 28 July 2019
• There's no surer way to ruin outdoor fun than to be dive-bombed by a horde of these biting buggers, which cause angry red welts that can leave you miserably itchy for a week or more.
  — Michele Petry, House Beautiful, 19 July 2019
• But tickets sold out instantly and the morning of the show date, Sacks arrived at work to find hordes of concert-goers camped outside the venue, many of whom had driven hours from neighboring states.
  — Tatiana Cirisano, Billboard, 2 July 2019
• They were surrounded by a horde of media members as Alejandra Juarez self-deported to Mexico.
  — Lisa Maria Garza, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Aug. 2019
• Everywhere the trio walked on Thursday, a horde of fans shooting cellphone photos, amateur videographers and TV crews followed.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2019
• My jaw would soon hit the floor, as did the rest of the media horde.
  — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 6 Sep. 2019
• 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
• Things get messy and deadly from there, as hordes of the undead descend on the land.
  — Megan Vick, EW.com, 30 May 2024
• The arrival of the aforementioned Flood PvE mode horde mode.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
• Every year, hordes of crappie flock to the shallows to spawn.
  — Don Wirth, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2024
• The event drew hordes of shoppers hoping to catch a glimpse of the model and household name.
  — Samantha Conti, WWD, 11 Oct. 2024
• The episode leaves us with an image of a masked Maggie marching at the helm of her own horde.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2021
• Lydia is able to finish the job by leading the horde to a cliff to meet a watery demise.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• Frantic hordes rush out to the stores, sweeping shelves clean of food and supplies.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 20 Apr. 2020
• Even the smallest crumbs left on the dining table or the floor can attract a horde of ants.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 2 June 2021
• 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
• Perhaps the hordes of tiny skeleton shrimp that covered some of the kelp were stunting its growth.
  — Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 29 Aug. 2024
• However, the new report suggests that guideline isn’t perfect, for the recommendation might be overlooking the hordes of younger women among whom the incidence of breast cancer is on the rise.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
• For scholars such as Michael Rogin, hordes of giant insects represented communism.
  — Salama Udaipurwala, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024