hoard
noun
a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc..
were hoarding
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past progressiveof hoard.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Rich countries were hoarding doses and many countries didn’t have the facilities to make their own vaccines.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
The bloc has instead focused on exporting vaccines — around 700 million — at a time when most nations that produced shots were hoarding them.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2021
Rumors spread among the peasantry that nobles were hoarding stores of grain, driving up prices and starving the peasants into submission.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
And inside grocery stores across the Hawaiian islands, people were hoarding water, toilet paper and Spam.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2018
Maybe the rats were hoarding supplies for the summer drought up there.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
