How to Use hog-tie in a Sentence
hog-tie
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She was found hog-tied in her home, having been bludgeoned with a fire poker.
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Matt Cabral,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Jan. 2026
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Well, for one, the go-to induction method is being roused from your bed in the middle of the night, hog-tied, and tossed in a van.
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Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
9 Sep. 2025
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Costner steadily relies on his faith, even when − to borrow a metaphor from his beloved Western genre – life hog-ties him.
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Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
8 Dec. 2025
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The distinction between hog-tying and leg restraints is integral to the federal suit.
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Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
24 Feb. 2026
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In fact, police questioned several other men in connection with the murder of Weaver, who was hog-tied, raped and strangled by her attacker, who then set a fire in her bedroom to cover his tracks, court papers state.
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Corky Siemaszko,
NBC news,
15 May 2026
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Most damning of all is that her body was found hog-tied in a conspicuously similar fashion as Reynolds’ previous presumptive victim, Bunny Davis.
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Matt Cabral,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Jan. 2026
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Falcinelli’s lawyers allege the manufacturer that makes the leg-hobble restraints that North Miami Beach police use — Ripp International Restraints — clearly instructs its customers not to use them to hog-tie an individual.
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Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
24 Feb. 2026
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That all changed when an argument over getting his money back from a North Miami Beach strip club in 2024 led officers to slam him to the ground, cuff him and later, hog-tie him in a holding cell at the North Miami Beach Police Department.
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Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
24 Feb. 2026
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