Hogging is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Hogging meaning
present participle and gerund of hog
Using Hogging
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of hog
- In the example corpus, hogging often appears in combinations such as: hogging the, is hogging, hogging all.
Context around Hogging
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hogging
- In this selection, "hogging" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, power, space, people, software, spaces and headlines stand out and add context to how "hogging" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a carpetbagger hogging the limelight and agent showrooms hogging main streets. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hogging" sits close to words such as abdelaziz, absolutist and accrual, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hogging
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
How to find power-hogging software? (6 words)
Once you identify power-hogging software, you have several options. (10 words)
Actor Nora Fatehi is hogging headlines for her on feminism. (10 words)
Over the past few weeks, a controversial mayor named Alice has been hogging the headlines because of her tall tales of growing up in a farm, and made a great escape to a neighboring country. (35 words)
Despite being a native species in Britain, English ivy can still go rogue, hogging all the nutrients, light and moisture from its plant neighbours, stunting their growth big time. (29 words)
They wrote “Carson Chooses Forgiveness,” in which a young boy who loves basketball feels overshadowed by the team’s star player, who starts showing off and hogging the ball. (29 words)
How to find power-hogging software? (6 words)
Do we really need all those real estate agent showrooms hogging main streets? (13 words)
Example sentences (20)
Fans online have suggested that celeb-chaser chef was to blame for hogging the iconic golden trophy.
How to find power-hogging software?
Once you identify power-hogging software, you have several options.
They employed a “team first” mentality and shunned individual hot dogging or “hogging” the ball — things many players would be guilty of in ensuing decades.
This is regularly leading to people hogging spaces for days on end, leaving new arrivals to seek another venue, more often than not away from the town.
Actor Nora Fatehi is hogging headlines for her on feminism.
Despite being a native species in Britain, English ivy can still go rogue, hogging all the nutrients, light and moisture from its plant neighbours, stunting their growth big time.
Over the past few weeks, a controversial mayor named Alice has been hogging the headlines because of her tall tales of growing up in a farm, and made a great escape to a neighboring country.
That means that if someone is hogging to Xbox, you can play on another TV.
This Lasko heater can help warm up the area without hogging all your floorspace.
Do we really need all those real estate agent showrooms hogging main streets?
He continues to discover blind spots: hogging the Merb’y spotlight, for example.
It makes sense … he’s 50 years old – a far cry from the young, vibrant, attention-hogging mogul he once was in the 1990s.
Samsung sees this similarly unusual occurrence as an opportunity to one-up Apple by immediately hogging the stage just a few months after the latest iPhones launched.
The present space-hogging statute depicts no real person, it wasn’t made in America, and its beaming presence has become anathema to national directive.
The use of two elevators, rather than space hogging ramps, adds half a million dollars.
The year was 2014 and Bev joined the equally headline-hogging Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) which was founded by self-styled prophet Walter Magaya.
Central Motorway Police Group, which covers Staffordshire and West Midlands, wrote that middle lane hogging is 'drivers' biggest pet hate'.
Similarly, Mary Stuart Masterson was a carpetbagger hogging the limelight.
They wrote “Carson Chooses Forgiveness,” in which a young boy who loves basketball feels overshadowed by the team’s star player, who starts showing off and hogging the ball.
Common combinations with hogging
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- hogging the 7×
- is hogging 4×
- hogging all 4×
- hogging headlines 2×