hoary

“Spring” is a densely packed wall, interrupted by two doorways, which causes Ms. Yukhnovich’s floral interventions to cluster particularly close together, suggesting the sudden bursting forth of life following the hoary months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

But sometime over this last winter — that numbing, hoary stretch between mid-February and March — I decided this might be the year to reclaim a bit of seasonal delight.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025

Some take comfort in hoary comic patterns, souped-up eccentricity and reassuring pieties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025

These field exposure estimates informed subsequent studies on the impact of such exposure on hibernating bumble bee queens and the hoary squash bee, a solitary ground-nesting species.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2024

Having served enough time in Atlanta with her volunteer work, Mother has moved to the Georgia coast, to a hamlet of hoary little brick houses on Sanderling Island.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Grapes and their relative merits are one of the hoarier topics in wine.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2022

Since the turn of the century, three paths have emerged for washed-up stars, displacing hoarier options like “Hollywood Squares.”

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 2, 2019

Without a bona fide star role like Lilli, though, you might be hard-pressed to put up with some of the hoarier aspects of “Kiss Me, Kate’s” sexual politics, in Sam and Bella Spewack’s book.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2019

Unfortunately, Mr. Urban’s play is far hoarier than Mr. Lucas’s delicate, moving romantic fantasy.

From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2014

The stars of the past and the beacons are paling, The heavens and the waters are hoarier of hue: But the heart in us chants not an all unavailing    Farewell and adieu.

From A Century of Roundels by Algernon Charles Swinburne

But when it mattered most, in their American League division series, the Red Sox upended the hoariest axiom of all.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2021

This is the film’s hoariest plot device, but it does serve a purpose in getting Ben to grow up.

From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2019

Maybe we can finally talk about how Jane the Virgin took on the hoariest storytelling device around—a cancer plotline?!—and really made it sing, with the cold waters of the north Atlantic nipping at our toes.

From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2018

Where St. John focused on diversity and folk music, Wu Han is concentrating on that hoariest of classical-music tropes, the city of Vienna.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2018

And long hours they talked together,—strong youth and hoariest age; and each was glad that in the other he had found some source of hope and comfort.

From The Story of Siegfried by James Baldwin