How to Use hog in a Sentence

hog

1 of 2 noun
Definition of hognext
Synonyms for hognext
  • The new software is a real memory hog.
  • Don't be such a hog! Other people have to eat too!
  • Sarandos moved on to the splayed hog; the entourage followed.
    — Sheila Yasmin Marikar, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • But Dos Reales uses the pork leg, a lean part of the hog where ham also comes from.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2024
  • His son, Earl Jack Cook, kept hogs, sheep and cattle, and in the late 1920s opened a restaurant.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2023
  • One of the jobs he was allowed to perform was taking care of hogs in the prison’s hog barns.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The plan was to break ground on a hog farm with Darryl’s family.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 July 2022
  • As such, Laniakea is free of bulky beams and braces that hog space and spoil views.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The young fruit bodies resemble pigs, and hogs are in fact fond of them.
    — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 11 May 2023
  • The city had a well, which was infected with E. coli due to hog farming.
    — Grace Noble, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
  • And one of my jobs during the middle of the day was to keep the hogs cooled down, going out with water hoses.
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 10 July 2023
  • Cook said the call came from the fourth person in the group, a friend who lives in the area and invited the other three to hunt hogs.
    — Skye Seipp, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Most hog producers haven’t made changes to comply with the law.
    — NBC News, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Most hog producers haven't made changes to comply with the law.
    — Scott McFetridge, ajc, 12 Dec. 2021
  • Several men helped move the hog from the trailer to a large, mobile tub.
    — New York Times, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Also, a Red River hog has eye surgery in this new episode.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2021
  • If the disease makes its way into hog farms, pigs raised for meat will have to be culled as well.
    — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 17 July 2022
  • And for many of those, wild hogs are a serious concern.
    — Lawrence Specker | [email protected], al, 13 Sep. 2023
  • As for hog-tying Whitmer, that was puffery, the defense lawyer claimed.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2022
  • There are no more than eight guns at the ranch, mainly used to kill feral hogs and snakes, McGillis said.
    — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 20 July 2023
  • Front-month lean hog futures on the CME are down 0.4% Thursday, on pace for a seventh straight loss.
    — Kirk Maltais, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The hungry feral hog could smell the sweet corn scattered on the ground, beckoning.
    — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 21 June 2022
  • After a hog-killing, the various parts of the pig that couldn’t be preserved were relished.
    — Adrian Miller, Bon Appétit, 23 Aug. 2022
  • And yet, there is reason to pause before going full hog-on.
    — Allison Hope, CNN, 22 Dec. 2021
  • What marbled the meat had not come from a butchered pig but a living hog whose fat cells had been sampled and grown in a vat.
    — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2023
  • South then branded himself as a notrump hog by jumping to 2NT.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Current hog farmer, Tom Butler is a key character in the doc.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 30 Apr. 2022
  • After a period of bonding, the two joined the six other red river hogs at the park.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
  • While the talc is harmless, the resin/pitch and paint can be toxic to certain animals, like hogs.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 24 May 2023
  • The con is called pig butchering — so named because victims are likened to hogs, fattened up for slaughter.
    — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2024
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hog

2 of 2 verb
  • He's been hogging the remote control all night.
  • And don’t be the guest whose dish needs to go into the oven or hog a shelf in the fridge.
    — Serena Coady, Glamour, 18 Oct. 2021
  • If the old men hog the young women, what will be the future of the species?
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Yes, that would be the gold medal that Canada has hogged.
    — Gary D'amato, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2018
  • When recounting the ups and downs of war, guns and guts tend to hog all the glory.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2020
  • The jar blender and food processor are the big guys who hog the spotlight.
    — Becky Krystal, charlotteobserver, 15 May 2018
  • George Kittle could return and hog most of the targets.
    — Phil Thompson, chicagotribune.com, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Even if James decided to hog the ball, the Lakers still may have lost.
    — Mark Medina, USA TODAY, 4 June 2021
  • Over the first three weeks of the season, Matthews has hogged 36% of Tennessee's red zone targets.
    — Tj Hernandez, SI.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Now, who’s hogging the keys to our long-term Golf Alltrack?
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 1 Mar. 2018
  • That friend would never shout over you, selfishly hog the limelight or drink the last of the wine.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Don’t hog a large table. Don’t put your stuff on an extra chair.
    — Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Don’t hog spaces others might need — yes, the bathroom!
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Still, her male counterparts have hogged the big-screen glory.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, latimes.com, 5 June 2017
  • However, the Encores don’t hog all of the show’s attention.
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2020
  • While the feral pigs hog the spotlight, the area is also home to native rock iguanas.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2022
  • That’s not to be taken for granted in the pizza world, where the trinity of bread, sauce and cheese tend to hog all the attention.
    — al, 11 May 2021
  • LeMelo, after all, had been allowed by last year’s coach to hog the ball and score 92 points in a single game.
    — Tod Leonard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • At just 43 years of age, Lopez should be confident of hogging more industry prizes in the years ahead.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2018
  • With dogs, however, the highest status pup hogged the whole thing.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 June 2017
  • Gyms can be hot and packed with legions of people prepping for swimsuit season and hogging all the choice weights and racks.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 26 May 2023
  • In epic tales of the immune system, B cells and their antibodies tend to hog the limelight.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2021
  • The bathrooms were packed with girls hogging mirrors, the floors were already wet, and again there was no toilet paper.
    — Valentina Valentini, Longreads, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The meters are designed to make sure motorists don’t hog the parking spaces all day.
    — Lynn Horsley, kansascity, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Since the desert is so inhospitable and dry, grasses need to hog as much water as possible to live.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 18 Jan. 2017
  • The response Miss Manners dislikes is your assumption that the host intended to slight some of her guests and hog all the wine for her end of the table.
    — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
  • More good-natured ribbing of jazz singer Sharon Gitau for hogging the phone, please!
    — Rebecca Schuman, Longreads, 6 June 2018
  • This year, though, there are signs that the contentious legislation won’t hog the spotlight.
    — Greg Bluestein, ajc, 25 Dec. 2017
  • Newsom and DeSantis hogged the spotlight, but didn’t move the needle.
    — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
  • There will be a lot of mouths to feed in the Jets offense, what with Wilson likely — and rightfully so — hogging a healthy portion of Rodgers' targets.
    — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023

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