How to Use hoover in a Sentence

hoover

verb
  • The large-mouthed sharks end up hoovering in some of this natural debris.
    — JSTOR Daily, 24 Oct. 2025
  • This procedure can be used in the treatment of a variety of eye conditions, but using it to hoover up worms is rare.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Now, those animals can cost as much as $1,500 as buyers hoover up calves to fatten them for slaughter.
    — Enda Curran, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Now, those animals can cost as much as $1,500 as buyers hoover up calves to fatten them for slaughter.
    — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Pro sports leagues, and some individual franchises, can’t hoover money from legal sportsbooks fast enough.
    — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Last year, Oregon approved data privacy rules requiring consumer opt-in before companies hoover up face, eye and voice data.
    — Bobby Allyn, NPR, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The Japan midfielder is adept at sweeping up the ball in midfield, whether counter-pressing to regain possession after Leeds lose it or hoovering up loose balls in that area.
    — Ahmed Walid, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The winners of 2026 and beyond will be the platforms that had traction in 2025 and then hoovered up capital while the getting was good.
    — Rob Day, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • That battle can be expensive, as Chinese tech companies hoover up AI chips and tech talent, spend big on data centers, and slash prices to get an edge over their rivals.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The 26-year-old is active in hoovering up danger — clocking up his fair share of tackles and interceptions — but also reads the game well with a high volume of ball recoveries to get his side back on the front foot.
    — James McNicholas, New York Times, 2 June 2026
  • The 26-year-old is active in hoovering up danger — clocking up his fair share of tackles and interceptions — but also reads the game well with a high volume of ball recoveries to get his side back on the front foot.
    — Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • The club has normally been so efficient in hoovering up the Bundesliga’s best players, from Robert Lewandowski to Mario Gotze.
    — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • That’s hoovering up free cash flows and loading the companies with depreciating assets, radically altering many of the characteristics that have helped fuel the firms’ rise over the past decade.
    — Bloomberg, Oc Register, 16 Feb. 2026
  • That’s hoovering up free cash flows and loading the companies with depreciating assets, radically altering many of the characteristics that have helped fuel the firms’ rise over the past decade.
    — Jeran Wittenstein, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The first part of that deal was (belatedly) honored, though China is falling far short on this year’s commitment, instead hoovering up much cheaper Brazilian alternatives.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 7 May 2026
  • Until July, Chrome’s desktop market share had been flat for some time, hoovering at around 65%, per Statcounter’s representative data.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Only two English clubs landed in that category this season but Premier League sides, unsurprisingly given there were six of them, hoovered up the most money of any one country.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 30 May 2026
  • Given how tight things have been in the league table this season, Leeds will want to hoover up a couple more points for good measure, but the evidence suggests that fans can sleep a little easier after their excellent run of form in the past few weeks.
    — Mark Carey, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • From the unending sea of Adidas stripes on track suits, football jerseys and sneakers, to what must have been a Midwest record for the most bucket hats in a single place at once, the crowd came to sing along and hoover up as much merch as possible.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Live Nation and Ticketmaster have been accused of allowing scalpers to hoover up millions of tickets so they can be resold on Ticketmaster’s own resale platforms at a steep markups to customers.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2025
  • However, those agreements can’t stop other people from using AI tools — trained by hoovering up much of the internet — to generate work that’s reminiscent of a human actor or an existing movie scene.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
  • As Russia’s economy flounders, dependence on China becomes more entrenched, with China hoovering up over a quarter of Russia’s exports.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 20 May 2026
  • As rising rents push locals out of popular cities and short-term rental investors hoover up housing stock, platforms that move only primary residences — homes where people actually live — sidestep some of the criticism leveled at Airbnb.
    — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 June 2026
  • Each of Spurs, West Ham, Forest and Leeds have only lost three games combined across their previous five, respectively — with three of the four sides hoovering up maximum points last weekend.
    — Mark Carey, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Hardly seems like enough to cow these arrogant companies into behaving, especially when their business model is so intrinsically tied to hoovering up other people’s information and creative work.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Having spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the cable, Meta will want to prioritize the business of making that money back — by hoovering up user data, serving targeted ads, and pinning browsers within the iron embrace of its various platforms.
    — Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Those have finished trophyless for Los Blancos, while bitter rival FC Barcelona has hoovered up five out of the six domestic trophies on offer under Hansi Flick.
    — Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • In the same way that writing had taught me to pay attention to life, to perpetually hoover up sensory details and bits of dialogue around me, trash bashing cultivated a new propensity for seeing interesting possibilities in everyday items.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
  • This year, with giga-scale IPOs from the likes of SpaceX and Anthropic hoovering up capital, the case for SPACs is arguably even stronger.
    — Drew Bernstein, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Their expert avatars included living and dead writers like Stephen King, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Carl Sagan, but their scraping was incredibly broad reaching and hoovered up more than just the big names.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026

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