Example Sentences

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Identify what—or who, if you share a cloud drive with your family—is hogging your storage, then delete stuff you don’t need.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026

He worried that a data center would destroy his peace and quiet, bringing noise and light pollution and hogging the area’s water and electricity.

From Barron's • Oct. 18, 2025

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

From Slate • Nov. 5, 2024

I sometimes would manage to come up with excuses to phone her, and we would have long conversations until one of us would be told by a sibling to stop hogging the line.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2024

It bothers me a little that Dylan is hogging the praise.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston