Example Sentences

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Self-described haters say entitled cabana crews are hogging public space and disrespecting other beachgoers.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2025

“It’s kind of like the baby boomers are hogging political positions,” he said.

From Slate • Nov. 5, 2024

Supreme Court justices on Monday seemed sympathetic to Florida officials who complain that their neighbors to the north in Georgia are hogging water in a way that endangers a sensitive Sunshine State estuary.

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2018

Maybe the Warriors are hogging all the W’s.

From The Guardian • Nov. 25, 2015

Everything they want to themselves, and they are hogging all the time.

From The Discards by McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil