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Example sentences for "hoary"

Lexicographically close words:
hoariness; hoarse; hoarsely; hoarseness; hoarser; hoast; hoax; hoaxed; hoaxes; hoaxing
  1. No hoary priests after that Patriarch 245 Who bent the curse against his country's heart, Which clove his own at last?

  2. The fields they tread look black and hoary With fire--from their red feet the streams run gory!

  3. The only exception to English Sparrows was a single hoary old house rat that had evidently followed a Sparrow in; at any rate, the latter was found partially devoured.

  4. They kiss the wide sea, and swift smiles Of gladness o'er the waters creep; Old hoary rocks rejoice, and isles, And there is glory on the slumbering deep Afar.

  5. Old hoary oaks leaned on either hand quite over the narrow path-way, into which (after their brief pause of consultation) my conductors directed our course.

  6. The Peruvian trees, with their bending green branches and bunches of scarlet berries, glitter with the heavy rain-drops, and even the hoary cypresses of Chapultepec sparkle with water in all their gigantic branches.

  7. There is a smack of huge venison pasties, fatted capons, and of roasted peacocks about this hoary hostel.

  8. In striking contrast to the sturdy ruggedness of hoary Haddon is princely Chatsworth.

  9. There rises Artemision, there rises the hoary peak of Kronion, its snow-capped crest seeming no unfit dwelling-place of the aged god who reigned before Zeus and his children.

  10. With viscid slow demur the old man spoke, And downcast heavily shook his hoary head: "To dare is cheap and common with our race, We are few dastards; did not Judas dare?

  11. The hoary veteran could not be trusted with a better job.

  12. But the judge had not in vain a hoary veteran Michael Suska, for his body servant, who concocted a shrewd plan to attain the end desired.

  13. On the northern shores of the Baltic, and in that line of latitude, the hazel alone appears; and beyond this the hoary alder, the sycamore, and the mountain ash.

  14. I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight I got from looking through a pane of glass I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough And held against the world of hoary grass.

  15. Now beam'd the evening star; And from embattled clouds emerging slow Cynthia came riding on her silver car; And hoary mountain-cliffs shone faintly from afar.

  16. And where, to crown the hoary bard of night,[1] The Muses and the Virtues all unite?

  17. And goblins all To the damp dungeon shrink, or hoary hall, Or westward, with impetuous flight, Shoot to the desert realms of their congenial night.

  18. It grew deep in the green hollow close beside the lake, and the hoary mistletoe tufted its upper branches.

  19. Take the hoary Roman head, and shatter it, hold it abominable, Cut the Roman boy in pieces in his lust and voluptuousness.

  20. Eviradnus was growing old apace, The weight of years had left its hoary trace, But still of knights the most renowned was he, Model of bravery and purity.

  21. Green Bay, now hoary with age, has had an eventful, though not stirring history.

  22. The temperature was still low enough to induce us to court the sunshine, and, leaning against this hoary castaway from the far North, we sat for a while and basked in the radiant smiles of Sol.

  23. It is of the old style of architecture of wooden buildings that prevailed in the first settlement of the country, which, notwithstanding its hoary age and frequent necessary repairs, has never been changed.

  24. It is valuable and interesting because of its hoary age and because of the fact it was published in Fredericksburg.

  25. Though I should have thought such a hoary old wreck was nothing but a warning.

  26. The 'grand old wreck' was in his present aspect a hoary old persecutor, and charming Lady Tyrrell a worldly, scheming elder sister.

  27. Every hedgerow is hoary with May-bloom and honeysuckle.

  28. At a distance the same olives look hoary and soft--a veil of woven light or luminous haze.

  29. A thousand watery mountains surged up into the sky between the shore and Capri; and these massive billows were not black or purple, but hoary with a livid foam.

  30. Terraces, flanked on either side by jutting masonry, cut clear vignettes of olive-hoary slopes, with cypress-shadowed farms in hollows of the hills.

  31. The prophet's beard descends upon his naked breast in hoary ringlets to the girdle.

  32. Syracuse itself, a thin white line between the harbour and the open sea, a dazzling streak between two blues, terminates the slope of Epipolæ, and on the right hand stretch the marshes of Anapus rich with vines and hoary with olives.

  33. Another region turns its hoary raiment of olive-gardens to the sun and sea, or flourishes with fig and vine.

  34. I will stay with you as long as you wish, Miss Thusa," replied Helen, passing her hand softly over the hoary looks that shaded the brow of the sufferer.

  35. It almost requires the fabulous Jack to overcome the hoary giants of prejudice and custom, or the irrepressible energy of the Gorgon.

  36. There were congregated both sexes and all ages, from the infant to the hoary headed veteran of eighty winters.

  37. Those hoary headed veterans--those middle aged men--or those fiery and impetuous youths ever ready for either love or war?


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hoary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acknowledged; admitted; advanced; aged; ageless; ancient; antediluvian; antique; banal; chalky; conventional; customary; dateless; elderly; established; fixed; folk; frosted; frosty; gray; grey; grizzled; grizzly; hallowed; heroic; hoar; hoary; immemorial; inveterate; legendary; marble; milky; musty; mythological; old; oral; patriarchal; prescriptive; received; recognized; rooted; silver; silvery; snowy; timeless; timeworn; traditional; understood; unwritten; venerable; white; worshipful; wrinkled