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Meanings of hogged in English

(Of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end.

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Usage of hogged in English
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While the visitors hogged possession, St Johnstone did threaten on the break.
BBC
2
When his eyes lolled, the truck hogged the center of the road.
Winter’s Bone
3
Pushcarts, stalls, and tables full of merchandise hogged space along the main arteries.
The lost girls: three friends. four continents. one unconvention...
4
Folk still hogged pavement tables, reluctant to abandon their wine beakers and gaming-boards.
Venus In Copper
5
The woman hogged the armrest and her bulging elbow kept oozing into his side.
Apocalypse of the Dead
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But it was strikers in absentia who hogged the limelight.
The Irish Times
7
Fashion designer Alber Elbaz and the French actress Catherine Deneuve also hogged the front row.
Reuters
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So they pulled strings and hogged the whole thing.
Death masks
9
On both sides, men who have taken the floor, to the streets, hogged the limelight.
The Guardian
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And they say it is not the first time the pig has hogged… Video, Audio
Radio NZ
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For the first month of the trial, Roux hogged the limelight as he rattled state witnesses.
The Guardian
12
Carla hogged the mirror, trying to tame her frizzy ash-blond curls back into a respectable knot.
More bitter than death: an emma fielding mystery
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Gone are the days when it was Nelson Mandela's post-apartheid South Africa that hogged the African limelight.
Reuters
14
She's loud; she's obnoxious; and did you notice how she hogged Guy's entire photo session this evening?
G'day to die: a passport to peril mystery
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Had Quint hogged the covers again and left her shivering without even a sheet to cover her?
Don't cry
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I knew there were plenty of other egocentric commanders who would have hogged the stage for themselves.
Riding rockets
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Hogged through the time