Hock is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like incapacitate or invalid. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Hock in a sentence
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Hock meaning
A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.
Synonyms of Hock
Using Hock
- The main meaning on this page is: A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.
- Useful related words include: rhine wine, incapacitate, invalid, disable.
- In the example corpus, hock often appears in combinations such as: hock tan, ceo hock, in hock.
Context around Hock
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 12 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hock
- In this selection, "hock" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ceo, officer, jonathan, tan, basically and gives stand out and add context to how "hock" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include news ceo hock e tan and a right hock metatarsal fracture. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hock" sits close to words such as abbeys, abundances and aced, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hock
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hock, basically housekeeping question. (4 words)
If you’d like, remove the ham hock and shred the meat. (12 words)
Of course, as they say, getting old beats the hock out of the alternative. (14 words)
As the three-year-old addition to the Toy Store in Quincy continues to serve up traditional cones, waffle cones and cups of Hock Family Ice Cream from Minden, NV., the owners claim to have sold more than 400 gallons in two-and-a-half months. (46 words)
On the prosecution's end, Deputy Attorney-General Ang Cheng Hock received his Bachelor of Laws from the National University of Singapore in 1995 and was called to the bar the next year. (33 words)
He was more critical, however, of the posing of the model, claiming that Titian was sometimes too in hock to what was in front of him to see what should be. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Broadcom's president and chief executive officer, Hock Tan, said they were excited to bring together their teams to build "the world's leading infrastructure technology company".
Hock, basically housekeeping question.
The film, which is directed by Jonathan Hock, gives an inside look into Lundqvist’s fight to return to hockey after undergoing heart surgery.
The guest speaker is Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, an artist and advocate for Indigenous communities.
Ed’s knee-jerk reaction to the mad Tory jibe that Labour were in hock to the unions.
Her ambitions seem to have been thwarted, thanks to senior figures on the Left of the party who are in hock to the unions, which vigorously support home working.
In other Broadcom news, CEO Hock E. Tan sold 150,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, September 24th.
In other news, CEO Hock E. Tan sold 150,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, September 24th.
In other news, CEO Hock E. Tan sold 20,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Thursday, December 21st.
In other news, major shareholder Stacy Hock sold 8,571 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, October 3rd.
In related news, CEO Hock E. Tan sold 50,000 shares of Broadcom stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, September 17th.
On the prosecution's end, Deputy Attorney-General Ang Cheng Hock received his Bachelor of Laws from the National University of Singapore in 1995 and was called to the bar the next year.
The Isleys had to go get his guitar out of hock and bring it back for him to do an audition.
As the three-year-old addition to the Toy Store in Quincy continues to serve up traditional cones, waffle cones and cups of Hock Family Ice Cream from Minden, NV., the owners claim to have sold more than 400 gallons in two-and-a-half months.
He was more critical, however, of the posing of the model, claiming that Titian was sometimes too in hock to what was in front of him to see what should be.
Of course, as they say, getting old beats the hock out of the alternative.
She was also preceded in death by her parents; her stepfather, Fred Hock; her two brothers, Ted and Carl; and many cherished sisters- and brothers-in-law.
Striker came to the shelter as an injured stray dog; he suffered a dislocated hip and a right hock metatarsal fracture.
Despite the loss, Ohio State head coach Lori Walker-Hock said she was pleased with her young team’s effort in a close opening game.
If you’d like, remove the ham hock and shred the meat.
Common combinations with hock
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- hock tan 7×
- ceo hock 6×
- in hock 4×
- hock to 4×
- of hock 2×
- hock and 2×
- the hock 2×
- ham hock 2×
- beng hock 2×
- pork hock 2×