hogged

past tense of hog

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hogged
Verb
  • Their words painted a portrait of someone who micromanaged, monopolized the spotlight and rarely recognized individual contributions.
    Bill Koch, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Judge Amit Mehta ruled last year that Google illegally monopolized online search and advertising by paying companies like Apple and Samsung billions of dollars a year to install Google as the default search engine on smartphones and web browsers.
    Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Movies are still big events, still consumed in long sittings, still treated as cultural monuments.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The water and food animals consumed left a chemical signature in their bones, which provided researchers with a key to their origin.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Shore has recently been engrossed in another kind of tribute to an entertainment legend, Richard Simmons, whom he's set to play in a feature film based on a short that's already made the rounds.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • You’ll be engrossed and saddened by the backstory to Jason Kaminsky, the one-time Nottingham Forest prospect who suffered from alcoholism and died in 2005, aged just 31.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
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“Hogged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hogged. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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