Explore Hogwash through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like bunk or bunkum. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Hogwash in a sentence
Hogwash meaning
- Foolish talk or writing; nonsense.
- A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs; swill.
Using Hogwash
- The main meaning on this page is: Foolish talk or writing; nonsense. | A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs; swill.
- Useful related words include: bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff.
- In the example corpus, hogwash often appears in combinations such as: hogwash and.
Context around Hogwash
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 5 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hogwash
- In this selection, "hogwash" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, absolute, utter, holocaust, indeed and positively stand out and add context to how "hogwash" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include absolute unfettered hogwash and and other hogwash. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hogwash" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hogwash
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That, ladies and gentlemen, is absolute hogwash. (7 words)
That statement is just absolute unfettered hogwash. (7 words)
Hogwash indeed as most people won’t even know they got switched until the bill comes. (16 words)
Even if everything put forth in the reading eventually proves untrue, or you find every turn of the card utter hogwash, it’ll make you consider everything about where you’ve been, where you are and what might just be around the corner. (43 words)
Hon Katambo, MCC, regrets that a credible platform such as Lusaka Times could allow itself to play the role of conveying fake news of this magnitude even after being reminded that the story was nothing but another politically engineered hogwash. (40 words)
If Dambudzo does not react to this hogwash positively then all his barking about a free and fair election is just a pie in the sky and i hope all observers are recording all this drivel. (36 words)
How could a person who called the Holocaust “hogwash” and who had a history of making unhinged Facebook posts make it to such an important position? (26 words)
Example sentences (15)
That, ladies and gentlemen, is absolute hogwash.
Another might call it hogwash on a $120m budget, every cent of which pulled from Coppola’s pocket and the sale of a portion of his Californian winery.
Even if everything put forth in the reading eventually proves untrue, or you find every turn of the card utter hogwash, it’ll make you consider everything about where you’ve been, where you are and what might just be around the corner.
How could a person who called the Holocaust “hogwash” and who had a history of making unhinged Facebook posts make it to such an important position?
State Senate Pro Tem Mike McGuire, D-Healdsburg, called Republican complaints “hogwash,” and swiped at the party’s law-and-order bonafides, noting that it’s poised to nominate a convicted felon for president.
An investigator has said it was 'hogwash' that Prince Andrew (left) didn't know about Jeffrey Epstein's (right) behaviour.
Hogwash, most people don’t report burglaries because they’re tired of being treated like criminals by the police.
Hon Katambo, MCC, regrets that a credible platform such as Lusaka Times could allow itself to play the role of conveying fake news of this magnitude even after being reminded that the story was nothing but another politically engineered hogwash.
That statement is just absolute unfettered hogwash.
The Bayelsa born activist also lambasted the ruling party for describing the stolen money report as hogwash.
The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister also called the Centre’s flagship “beti bachao beti padhao” scheme a hogwash.
But in a statement, the APC said the excuse given is “hogwash” as the PDP and its candidate were invited at the same time as other political parties and their candidates.
Hogwash indeed as most people won’t even know they got switched until the bill comes.
If Dambudzo does not react to this hogwash positively then all his barking about a free and fair election is just a pie in the sky and i hope all observers are recording all this drivel.
Their $29 test resulted in seven pages of findings about endurance and strength and other hogwash.
Common combinations with hogwash
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: