hoariness

Example Sentences

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Horgan is the best thing about it, undercutting any hoariness with a curl of her lip or a withering aside.

From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2020

What assaults you instead is the fusty banality of the dialogue and the hoariness of the characters.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2012

The merchant fared forth and returned to the old woman who, seeing him changed of complexion, said to him, "What did his hoariness ask thee?"

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

So the wedding-day came, and grass and trees wore a fitting suit of crisp hoariness.

From The Daisy chain, or Aspirations by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Then he considered his beard and, seeing that the white hairs in it covered the black, bethought himself that hoariness is the harbinger of death.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir