hog - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • go: Shame they didn't go the whole hog & do a DTS release.

Object

  • headline: No doubt the London Olympics will be hogging the sponsorship headlines for the next five or six years.
  • bandwidth: Just looking through his start up group showed four different flavors of spyware, hogging yet more bandwidth.
  • lane: They are fed up with having their busses held up by all the other traffic hogging the bus lanes.

Adjective modifier

  • whole: Shame they didn't go the whole hog & do a DTS release.
  • giant: In this area one gets a better opportunity to see the giant forest hog.

Modifies a noun

  • roast: Sat 26th Today is hog roast, & I am helping at pp stall.
  • deer: Ecology of the hog deer in Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal.
  • brush: The very best hog brushes have over 80 % flagged bristles.
  • farm: In the early 1970's, nearly all hog farms had fewer than 200 head.

Noun used with modifier

  • wart: Andy keeps a wart hog that he only lets out at night, its a noisy bugger 13.
  • bandwidth: In other words, it is a bandwidth hog.
  • forest: In this area one gets a better opportunity to see the giant forest hog.
  • lane: Toward the right of the image is an early middle lane hog.
  • memory: This isn't a major memory hog on a small stand-alone host.

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