hogging

Example Sentences

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Identify what—or who, if you share a cloud drive with your family—is hogging your storage, then delete stuff you don’t need.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026

He worried that a data center would destroy his peace and quiet, bringing noise and light pollution and hogging the area’s water and electricity.

From Barron's • Oct. 18, 2025

Starbucks's in South Korea move echoes sentiment in cafes across the world, including in England where some coffee shops have introduced policies aimed at stopping remote workers from "hogging" tables and limiting turnover.

From BBC • Aug. 12, 2025

I sometimes would manage to come up with excuses to phone her, and we would have long conversations until one of us would be told by a sibling to stop hogging the line.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2024

Was this how the other assassins at the Assassins’ Keep had felt all those years she had spent hogging Arobynn Hamel’s attention?

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas