HOARY in a Sentence
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Example sentences for HOARY, such as:
1. The man was hoary and wrinkled when he was 70.
2. On the one hand was a sacred grave, on the other hoary locks.
2. On the one hand was a sacred grave, on the other hoary locks.
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Meanings and Examples of HOARY
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hoary
a. gray or white with or as if with age; covered with grayish hair
Classic Sentence:
1 They continued to hurry him along, travelling at a very rapid rate, until, at the end of an avenue of huge trees, arose Torquilstone, now the hoary and ancient castle of Reginald Front-de-Boeuf.
2 I will give the hoary bigot no advantage over me; and for Rebecca, she hath not merited at my hand that I should expose rank and honour for her sake.
3 Charon, the dread ferryman, guards these flowing streams, ragged and awful, his chin covered with untrimmed masses of hoary hair, and his glassy eyes aflame; his soiled raiment hangs knotted from his shoulders.
4 All hearts sink; Latinus goes with torn raiment, in dismay at his wife's doom and his city's downfall, defiling his hoary hair with soilure of sprinkled dust.
5 Speak, thou vast and venerable head," muttered Ahab, "which, though ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosses; speak, mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee.
6 On the one hand was a sacred grave, on the other hoary locks.
Example Sentence:
1 The man was hoary and wrinkled when he was 70.
2 You may now compose your hoary hosannas to this breakthrough for humankind -- or, at least, something that seems kind of human.