Hoarding explores the psychology behind the compulsion to accumulate and store large quantities of nonessential things.

The government accumulated vast quantities of uranium when prices were very low and no one else wanted it.

The aleurone tissue accumulates large quantities of oils and lipids that are useful during seed development.

To cover their walls and fill their giant chambers, he accumulated great quantities of art, much of it very high quality.

In modern America, with food beckoning on every corner, the gene works perversely, causing them to accumulate unhealthy quantities of fat.

As a result, Asians have accumulated huge quantities of foreign exchange, which they have used mostly to buy American government securities.

How can one person accumulate such quantities?

Organisms that have a tendency to accumulate chemical species can often accumulate significant quantities of material from very low concentrations in the environment.

It was necessary also to provide a large amount of transportation and accumulate quantities of stores, since the campaign probably would not end till spring.

Feral tilapia, however, may accumulate substantial quantities of mercury.