hogging

Example Sentences

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"With those levers, the big hitting, hogging the baseline, he was already showing real promise."

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

OpenAI and its chief-executive-slash-showman Sam Altman have been hogging the AI spotlight lately.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025

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

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

Even though our team had exchanged email addresses during camp, Dad was hogging the laptop for his job search.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas