Randeep Hooda

I would often take this bus and go to a nearby village where I had hordes of animal friends. I was hardly around four or five years old then. The conductor was so used to seeing me hop on to the bus and get down at the same place, that he never asked any questions. The strangest part is, he never asked for a ticket either!

Indian Actor

Andie MacDowell

There are loads of actresses that modelled. They just weren't famous. There weren't a lot that were really known as models that became actresses, but there are hordes of them that did modelling before such as Anjelica Huston, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Demi Moore and Geena Davis. There are loads of 'em.

American Actress

Arundhati Bhattacharya

It was my first day at work - and beginning my training on the job, I was given the job of writing cheques and entering their details. The branch was surrounded by hordes of people... soon, they had to close the gates to manage the crowds, and they started pushing in.

Indian Businesswoman

Simone Signoret

Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefore, never had to go through the stress of perpetuating an image that's often the equivalent of one particular song that forever freezes a precise moment of one's youth.

German Actress

David Cage

Games are quite shy at talking about different things. Most are about facing hordes of monsters or saving the world or whatever; few games actually talk about the real world, about real people, about their relationship, their emotions, their feelings.

French Designer

R. Buckminster Fuller

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

American Inventor

Mike Wilson

KISS Psycho Circus is my current favorite. I'm not ashamed to say that I prefer the mindless fun of blasting hordes of creatures to exploration or adventure games.

Businessman

Ming-Na Wen

Mulan' holds a very special place in my heart. It's been 16 years since the film, but hordes of fans still come up and tell me how much she means to them.

Chinese Actress

Lord Byron

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

British Poet

Powell Clayton

In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.

American Politician

When 'horde' refers to people, it often suggests an uncontrollable, chaotic mass, not individual personalities.

Large and Impersonal

Using 'horde' can sometimes give a negative impression, as if the group is overwhelming or invasive.

Negative Undertone

'Horde' emphasizes the size of a group over the attributes of its members.

Quantity Over Quality

When related to tribes or groups, 'horde' often has historical or traditional connotations.

Historical Context

It suggests a nomadic or traveling group, usually with a common purpose or identity.

Movable Groups

The word can imply a threatening, military-like force especially in historical texts.

Warlike Implications

In modern settings, 'horde' is often used metaphorically for a large, overwhelming amount of non-human entities.

Figurative Use

A 'horde' can describe a vast quantity of abstract concepts like tasks, responsibilities, or ideas.

Abstract Nouns

 and jumped into the gap to stop the onrushing horde, disappearing into legend. The city was taken, and the Roman Empire finally disappeared. But those broken walls had one last gift. As the survivors fled the doomed city, they brought with them their precious books and their ancient traditions.

The city of walls:...

 at the start of the Neolithic era. People were learning to bend nature to their will, producing much more food than farmers could eat at one time. These Neolithic farmers stored their excess grain in large pits and short, clay silos. But these stores of food attracted hordes of rodents,

The history of the world...

 were just as hostile as I expected. They were the digital version of the screaming hordes I'd been seeing at protests since I was a kid. But in the midst of that digital brawl, a strange pattern developed. Someone would arrive at my profile with the usual rage and scorn,

I grew up in the...

 fixation this horde of new admirers there were dozens tens of dozens each circling absorbed in the pull of your intensity and glamour of your orbit and some they paid the price for it they shattered lost their lives for it grew ridges wounds their ice our drift and

Life Beyond the Sun by...

 led his army to meet the Scythian hordes in battle. For good luck, he carried one of the holiest relics the veil that had belonged to the Virgin Mary. Unfortunately, it didn’t help. Not only was his army defeated, but as they fled,

The princess who rewrote...

 to strain the immune system of their mammalian host by sending it into overdrive. The body sends hordes of white blood cells, antibodies and inflammatory molecules to kill the foreign invader.

Why bats don't get sick...

 Most travel alone, or in small groups. And they typically do so in deep waters. But the potential problem for beachgoers is that the hordes of blacktips prefer the shallows.

Shark Attack Capital of...

 Imagine being a touring the world's great museums, inspiring awe in onlookers of all ages, posing for hordes of fawning photographers.

How to fossilize...yourse...

 i found myself into the jungle with hordes of wildlife even in the mediterranean where that has been overfished for centuries

The Gateway to Secret...

 these sweeping hordes devastate any fresh growth in their path

Horde

A large group of people.

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A nomadic tribe or group.

Often appears as...

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An overwhelming number of some things.

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Negative Undertone

Quantity Over Quality

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