How to Use hock in a Sentence

hock

1 of 2 noun
  • Deer have scent glands near the hock of each hind leg.
    — Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Let ham hock cool and separate the meat from the bone and skin.
    — Meredith Deeds Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Using tongs, transfer the ham hock and ribs to a large plate.
    — Christopher Kimball, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Remove ham hocks, shred the meat, and add it back into the pot.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Take the hocks out of the soup, set aside until cool, and cut the meat off the bones.
    — Oc Register, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Although not much to look at, ham hocks pack a huge smoky-porky punch of flavor.
    — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Make sure to remove the ham hock's tiny bone bits before serving.
    — Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Ham hocks add tons of flavor to these slow-cooker collard greens.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Use white beans in this ham hock and white bean stew from Bon Appetit.
    — Jennifer McClellan, USA TODAY, 2 June 2022
  • Ambitious cooks can smoke their own hocks for double the meat.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 23 May 2026
  • While a ham hock and ham bone are not the same thing, they can be used interchangeably.
    — Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 23 Dec. 2025
  • While a ham hock and ham bone are not the same thing, they can be used interchangeably.
    — Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Turn off the heat and remove the ham hock, onion, carrot, celery and bay leaves.
    — USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The rice and beans are cooked slowly with bacon, fatback, or ham hock along with onion and salt.
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Vegetables were cooked into creamy casseroles or simmered in broth with a ham hock.
    — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Did the first clerk make a mistake in his dog Latin after too many butts of hock the night before?
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Next, nestle two ham hocks into the vegetable mixture.
    — Brennan Long, Southern Living, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Add chicken stock, ham hocks, diced tomatoes, and beer, and bring to a simmer over medium-high.
    — Marianne Williams, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Romaine is braised, as is common in Hong Kong, but with ham hock potlikker.
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Southern field peas and smoky ham hocks go together like Johnny and June.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 23 May 2026
  • Made with two hocks and bacon, the greens and the potlikker are powerfully rich and savory.
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Smoky ham hocks take these field peas up a notch, making this side dish absolutely irresistible.
    — Brennan Long, Southern Living, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Remove ham hocks from pot and continue simmering beans over medium-low.
    — Marianne Williams, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The meat-free meal was a lesson in showing that there’s more to bean cookery than throwing a ham hock in the pot and calling it a day.
    — Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2023
  • With only 15 minutes of prep time, this recipe lets the collard greens cook with ham hocks low and slow in your trusty slow cooker.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Add chicken broth, potatoes, ham hocks, thyme, salt and pepper and simmer on low for about two hours, or until the ham is tender.
    — Oc Register, 3 Jan. 2026
  • To heel-hang a carcass, cut a gambrel stick, sharpen its ends, and push it through cuts made in the hock skin between the big tendon and the bone.
    — Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Delicate Southern field peas pair perfectly with smoky ham hocks for an old-school veggie side.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Transfer ham hock to cutting board, let cool slightly, then shred into bite-size pieces, discarding skin, bones and excess fat.
    — al, 31 Dec. 2021
  • There’s not a lot of meat on ham hocks, but there’s a lot of skin and bone, which after a long simmer infuse the potlikker with collagen, like a rich bone broth.
    — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2025

hock

2 of 2 verb
  • The page gave a deep snort, hocking a chartreuse wad against the root of the nightingale’s birch.
    — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Their father, Benjamin Warner, hocked his gold watch to make up the difference.
    — Chris Yogerst, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Either way, this leaves the competition wide open, and hopefully means that some of the girls who have been fading into the background will get to hock their wares come next episode.
    — Shaad D'souza, Vulture, 8 May 2021
  • Now, all rational thinking would suggest that Styles did not intentionally hock a loogie into the lap of his castmate at a prestigious event.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Owners can afford to upgrade their facilities, pay for dinners and make sure players feel their families are being cared for, all without having to hock their yacht or private plane.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Understandably, for many, a panic takes hold — along with a willingness to hock your great-grandma’s heirloom jewelry to pay for any product that will grow your hair back and restore hair thickness.
    — Stephanie Dolgoff, Good Housekeeping, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Shein is far from the first online retailer to run into trouble with third-party vendors hocking controversial wares or flouting policy standards.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
  • One particular scene shows a coughing mask wearer remove his mask to hock up some phlegm -- basically negating the point of wearing the mask in the first place -- as nearby pedestrians eye him in fear and disgust.
    — Jeremy Hsu, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2015
  • But none of these journalists, educators and media outlets are necessarily hocking drugs online.
    — Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Trump has a long history of using social media to promote his political objectives, mock his adversaries, hock his products, and seek attention from voters and the media.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Across New York City, brazen pot dealers hock everything from pre-rolls to gummies on folding tables in parks, off gaudy trucks on major streets, and in storefronts painted purple, green, and gray.
    — Michael Stahl, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2022
  • While Fallon appeared to be hocking the brunt of his coffee carnage away from Cher, the Grammy-winner had no qualms about spraying the host directly in the face with a large mouthful of coffee.
    — EW.com, 8 Dec. 2023
  • This is the first time, however, that either costar has provided an explanation for what Styles really did in the clip, if not hocking a loogie on the Star Trek actor’s lap.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2023
  • And, most perplexingly, did Styles hock a loogie on co-star Chris Pine’s lap at the screening, as social media sleuths contended, or was Spitgate merely a collective hallucination driven by insatiable appetite for idiotic controversy?
    — Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2022

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