Hojo
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Knowing they would return, the ruling Hojo clan built several land- and sea-based fortifications to halt any future invasion.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
In this period, the imperial capital remained at Heian-kyo, but the warrior families, first the Minamoto and then the Hojo, were headquartered in Kamakura.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
I almost let my man Hojo drag me back into the social media ring Thursday night, when he spotlighted a recent TikTok skit that featured two guys in a car asserting that In-N-Out is overrated.
From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2020
After I got the double in Game 1, they all — Hojo, Pelf, all those guys, D-Wright — they were all texting me.
From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2010
How could he have been such a fool as to forget that the patient was herself a Hojo, and that fevered sleep is treacherous?
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis
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