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
• 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
• 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
• The media rushed to cover the story, and hordes of new customers followed.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
• The restaurant is one of the most famous in the country, attracting hordes of tourists and locals alike.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 15 May 2024
• 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
• The fad took a darker turn Wednesday as the Reddit horde brought prisons into the mix.
  — Fortune, 10 June 2021
• That would be something like a flamethrower against a horde locusts.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2019
• At the height of his teen fame, Shaun had to run straight from the stage into a limo, driving away before the house lights even came on, to avoid hordes of fans.
  — Julie Tremaine, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2024
• 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
• The trio of heroines hang out on cavernous space stations, travel to outlandish planets and encounter hordes of cat-like aliens.
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024