The three hoys were replaced by four boats--boats of force as they were called, carrying fifty men each.
In the other the payment was to be L900 a year, for which sum three hoys were to be maintained, two of sixty and one of forty tons, and carrying six men each.
Then the victuallers had to be loaded in the Thames and at Sandwich, and brought round to the ports where were the hoys or ships.
First all the shipping had to be pressed or borrowed, and the hoys had to be hired in the Low Countries or along the English coast and towed to the embarking or loading ports.
The detections, particularly in the victualing hoys and transports, since the establishment of the Marine Police, prove the existence of the evil, and the wide field which it embraces.
The b'hoys will shout for him, if history does not.
When the news of Wilkes' exploit reached the United States, the b'hoys went into ecstasies.
The shouts of the b'hoys had scarcely yet ceased to ring in his ears, and it would be an awkward step to take.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hoys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
