How to Use hoarder in a Sentence

hoarder

noun
  • Donald Trump was like a -- was a hoarder, or what is this?
    — ABC News, 14 Aug. 2022
  • One was given to Jeff Bezos, a great builder and hoarder of gold.
    — Jack Butler, National Review, 17 Apr. 2021
  • The victim, described as a hoarder, may have set the fire that killed him to keep warm, sources with knowledge of the case said.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Gasperik agrees with that analysis and says, for him, his life as a hoarder began in the 1960s.
    — Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2022
  • So as to not give the wrong impression, Aroonsakool is by no means a hoarder.
    — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The apartment was first sealed last summer during a record heat wave and the lawsuit claims that Macek was a hoarder.
    — Curbed, 15 May 2023
  • Her apartment was a hoarder-like mess of books, thrift store finds and non-perishable food items.
    — Nick Keppler, Men's Health, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Patinkin hates the way his wife amasses old newspapers, like a hoarder.
    — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2021
  • As a puppy, George lived in a hoarder house with countless other dogs.
    — John Dickerson, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Tape usage increases each year, thanks in part to the hunger of data hoarders like Google.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The play follows Sam (DeVito), a hoarder who is forced to clean up his home or be evicted.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2022
  • In this case, however, the hoarder dodged jail time by agreeing to release her pets.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2022
  • The hoarder solves the problem of value and attachment by holding on.
    — Justin Torres, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The house had reportedly been owned by a hoarder before Reynolds bought it.
    — Michael Hollan, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2020
  • Their 38-year-old son, Patrick, nicknamed Trick, has pursued a monastic life in Nepal and Berlin, hoarder of his own secrets.
    — Hamilton Cain, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
  • That started way back in childhood in your parent’s hoarder home.
    — R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Some blame the war in Ukraine; others blame hoarders and monopolies.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The inside of Pegasus is like a hoarder’s treasure trove.
    — Elizabeth Myong, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Skip the poison baits, too, because chipmunks are hoarders.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 30 Aug. 2023
  • More than 40 dogs, half of them dead, were found in Riverside County hoarder’s home, officials say.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2024
  • These hoarders of influence lord their power to save us by doing nothing to save us.
    — Hazlitt, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Keepin’ Tabs Hey speaking of Google, the company also announced some good news for all of us filthy browser tab hoarders.
    — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2024
  • But what if the problem were right next door, a troubled hoarder who turned a plot of property into a dangerous dump?
    — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
  • Such feeders are effectively outdoor-cat hoarders, akin to the people who hoard cats in their dwellings.
    — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Meanwhile, her mother, a food hoarder, taught her the opposite: to eat in secrecy.
    — Shanetta McDonald, refinery29.com, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Collins’ lawyers argue Krill was elderly, a hoarder, and likely fell and hurt herself in her apartment.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2023
  • Harker may have been spared because her hoarder mom, Ruth (Alicia Ruth), raised her without a father.
    — Beatrice Loayza, Vulture, 12 July 2024
  • Harker may have been spared because her hoarder mom, Ruth (Alicia Ruth), raised her without a father.
    — Beatrice Loayza, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
  • An Emmy-winning production designer who was known to be a hoarder has been found dead under a pile of garbage in her New York City home.
    — Fox News, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Those who purchase Saver tickets are more budget-conscious than the average miles-and-points hoarder.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2023

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