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Use "hoast" in a sentence
"This sustained defiance of the elements provoked occasional judgments in the shape of a "hoast" (cough), and the head of the house was then exhorted by his women folk to "change his feet" if he had happened to walk through a burn on his way home, and was pestered generally with sanitary precautions."
"But they came one after another, and by twos and threes, and there was the stamping of wet shoes, and the shaking out of wet plaids, and many a sneeze, and many a "hoast" (cough)."
"AP Michigan State's Mark Dell, right, smiles after catching a touchdown pass against Northwestern's Brian Peters, left, during a fourth-quarter rally that lifted the No. 7 Spartans to a 35-27 victory over the hoast Wildcats."