hog-tied
Example Sentences
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By the time Gamsjaeger returned with the medicine, they’d put the hogtied horse into the back of a trailer.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2022
Marty, as his friends know him, is a sweet pushover hogtied by social anxiety and gastrointestinal distress when he's introduced in 1981, on the verge of turning 40.
From Salon • Nov. 13, 2021
She and her husband say I'm not respecting their boundaries, but I feel like I've been hogtied.
From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2020
The Ravens as a group, however, continued to be hogtied by zone-blocking in the trenches.
From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2012
Arrange with the railroad grade contractor to let us have all his men, teams, and scrapers till we get her hogtied and harnessed.
From Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by Raine, William MacLeod
