Get to know Hoary better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like old or haired.
Hoary in a sentence
Hoary meaning
- White, whitish, or greyish-white.
- White or grey with age.
- Of a pale silvery grey.
Synonyms of Hoary
Using Hoary
- The main meaning on this page is: White, whitish, or greyish-white. | White or grey with age. | Of a pale silvery grey.
- Useful related words include: old, haired, hairy, canescent.
- In the example corpus, hoary often appears in combinations such as: the hoary.
Context around Hoary
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hoary
- In this selection, "hoary" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, great, bat, goats, headed, fox and beast stand out and add context to how "hoary" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include at the hoary apple tree and children and hoary headed grandsires. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hoary" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hoary
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That one's quite hoary. (5 words)
This undated image shows the bat Hoary Potter. (8 words)
Lame men and blind women shot; children and hoary-headed grandsires ruthlessly swept down! (14 words)
As played by Redmayne, an actor who already becomes virtually invisible when not taking on some kind of hoary affectation, Dug’s characterization is so tenuous that his scripting begins and end at his ability to be tossed around with the ease of a twig. (45 words)
It is no good for the Congress to just regale the public with hoary tales about convict releases being bought and sold at our national penitentiary and other prisons, and all kinds of corruption in our penal system. (38 words)
In this the "hoary" Constantine, by now around 60 years of age, is said to have lost a son in the battle, a claim which the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba confirms. (33 words)
Lame men and blind women shot; children and hoary-headed grandsires ruthlessly swept down! (14 words)
Example sentences (16)
The hoary fox is a species endemic to Cerrado savanna habitat and faces similar threats as the maned wolfm such as land-use change, roadkill, and disease spread by domestic animals.
Once again, the great hoary beast Vhagar and the far smaller Meleys grapple in the sky and once again, Rhaenys escapes largely unscathed.
This undated image shows the bat Hoary Potter.
Every hoary stereotype leveled against the right for decades has been given credence by the GOP’s support for this monster of a human being….
Both of our top county “executives” and their professional cohorts have outworn their welcome, as have some of the hoary incumbents in our Boards of Supervisors.
It is no good for the Congress to just regale the public with hoary tales about convict releases being bought and sold at our national penitentiary and other prisons, and all kinds of corruption in our penal system.
On the evidence of a week’s intensive theatregoing in New York, I would suggest that hoary generalisation has been blown to smithereens.
As played by Redmayne, an actor who already becomes virtually invisible when not taking on some kind of hoary affectation, Dug’s characterization is so tenuous that his scripting begins and end at his ability to be tossed around with the ease of a twig.
I don’t wish the younger generation to forget our hoary tradition and the sculptors of this which is flowing ceaselessly to date.
That one's quite hoary.
Wildlife was evident too with bighorn sheep, mountain goats, hoary marmots and various other critters.
Even hoary-headed men are distinguished by them, and are thus conspicuous alike to enemies and to fellow-countrymen.
In this the "hoary" Constantine, by now around 60 years of age, is said to have lost a son in the battle, a claim which the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba confirms.
Lame men and blind women shot; children and hoary-headed grandsires ruthlessly swept down!
One other flaw, McCarthy said, was the revelation of Col. Fitts' homosexuality, which he said evoked "hoary Freudianism ".
This was told to King Harold, and he gathered then a great army and come towards them at the Hoary Apple Tree, and William came upon him unawares before his folk were ready.
Common combinations with hoary
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: