How to Use hog-tie in a Sentence

hog-tie

verb

• She was found hog-tied in her home, having been bludgeoned with a fire poker.
  — Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Jan. 2026
• Well, for one, the go-to induction method is being roused from your bed in the middle of the night, hog-tied, and tossed in a van.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2025
• Costner steadily relies on his faith, even when − to borrow a metaphor from his beloved Western genre – life hog-ties him.
  — Erin Jensen, USA Today, 8 Dec. 2025
• The distinction between hog-tying and leg restraints is integral to the federal suit.
  — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2026
• In fact, police questioned several other men in connection with the murder of Weaver, who was hog-tied, raped and strangled by her attacker, who then set a fire in her bedroom to cover his tracks, court papers state.
  — Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 15 May 2026
• Most damning of all is that her body was found hog-tied in a conspicuously similar fashion as Reynolds’ previous presumptive victim, Bunny Davis.
  — Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Jan. 2026
• Falcinelli’s lawyers allege the manufacturer that makes the leg-hobble restraints that North Miami Beach police use — Ripp International Restraints — clearly instructs its customers not to use them to hog-tie an individual.
  — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2026
• That all changed when an argument over getting his money back from a North Miami Beach strip club in 2024 led officers to slam him to the ground, cuff him and later, hog-tie him in a holding cell at the North Miami Beach Police Department.
  — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2026