hoofing

present participle of hoof

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hoofing
Verb
  • As the Mariners spun in a dance circle with kicking legs, Guerrero once again draped arms over the dugout railing and buried his head into his biceps.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In Week 1, kicking woes contributed to a 23-20 loss.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Upon booting up the game and working through a pretty robust character creator, players arrive in Lumiose City and are immediately ambushed by a content creator/social media manager working for the corporation Quasartico, Inc.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
  • BMCs also enable some of the most sensitive operations, such as reflashing the firmware for the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) that’s responsible for loading the server OS when booting.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
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“Hoofing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hoofing. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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