Example Sentences

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“She had never experienced that before, my dad was the one who had hogged all the limelight at the other wins.”

From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2014

In Milan, the sponsors had hogged the limelight and Haring was unhappy about this "commercial" intrusion.

From The Guardian • May 14, 2013

Anyway, it was a case where the Runyon people had hogged the waterfront and was friskin' us for tonnage charges on every steamer we loaded.

From The House of Torchy by Brown, Arthur William

I was well paid with the thanks, until I found out that she had sent $300 with them, and that my partner had hogged onto it.

From Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi by Devol, George H.