Sentence examples for hock into from inspiring English sources

Put the vegetables and ham hock into a deep saucepan and cover with water.

"The Skilled Tradesman" is one of seven categories, as dry as hock, into which the San Francisco show is divided.

Sure, plenty of business owners have been skittish about going into hock in what remains a tough economy, but plenty more remain starved for credit and just can't get it.

They are the ones who, most often with their economically-stressed parents' concurrence, take the big gamble and go deeply into hock in the expectation that their dearly-purchased degrees will allow them not only to pay off their college debt but also achieve a comfortable middle-class life within just a few years.

They cut the thyroid glands into razor-thin sections, as if carving a hock of ham into prosciutto slices, and peered at the sections under a microscope.

The game ended with the Rockies trying desperately to get another runner -- Denny Hocking -- into scoring position.

Alternatively, humanity could, in effect, go into hock.

Please don't go into hock to pay for a wedding.

"We're going into hock to our eyeballs to people overseas.

But economists worried that as America's consumption boom took it deeper into hock, foreigners would become less willing to lend to it.

So a word of advice to anxious parents: if you want to go into hock for life to send your kids to Harvard, that's fine.