How to Use horde in a Sentence

horde

noun

• A horde of tourists entered the museum.
• Hordes of reporters were shouting questions.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And by the way, the town is still being repaired after Beta's horde.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2021
• Here on the central Asian steppe, the ancient home of Genghis Khan and his Mongol horde, the nomads are brought up tough.
  — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 8 July 2018
• There aren’t hordes of people going over the Accademia.
  — Nina Sovich, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2018
• The Honduran team’s air force plane was met by hordes of Salvadoran fans.
  — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 24 June 2019
• The winds riled up hordes of bees and wasps, whose angry stings filled emergency rooms.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
• Picking my way up the side of an icy cliff, where a horde of enemy soldiers waits for me at the top.
  — Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 18 Aug. 2020
• Escaping a zombie horde from Army of the Dead in an EV pickup truck?
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 2023
• June blows a whistle and out from the shadows steps a horde of other Gilead refugee women.
  — Amanda Ostuni, EW.com, 16 June 2021
• 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
• Instead, he's killed within moments of the opening battle against a horde of vicious alien invaders.
  — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
• That sets off a horde of prosecutors, politicians, press, police, clergy and hustlers all clamoring for a piece of the action.
  — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Jan 2025