hog-wild

Example Sentences

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And more traditional financial institutions have been careful about taking hog-wild bets on crypto the way they did on dodgy mortgage bonds in the early 2000s.

From Washington Post • Nov. 14, 2022

True Trader Joe's fans know just how scrumptious the delightfully chewy treat tastes and feels, so they go a bit hog-wild and buy two or three boxes whenever it makes its triumphant return.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2022

The hog-wild pair disrupted play by "pushing golf trolleys and bags over".

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2021

Instead, the Henry Ford doctors, like those at many other institutions, went hog-wild for hydroxychloroquine even though “there was little evidence to justify a hydroxychloroquine protocol at the outset of the pandemic,” the editorialists wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2020

How "Joe Gardner's mule had gone plumb hog-wild when he tried to ride past the ol' ruins near th' ranch."

From The Shepherd of the Hills by Wright, Harold Bell