[ US /ˈhəɡ/ ]
[ UK /hˈʌɡ/ ]
VERB
  1. fit closely or tightly
    The dress hugged her hips
  2. hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness
    They embraced
    Hug me, please
    He hugged her close to him
NOUN
  1. a tight or amorous embrace
    come here and give me a big hug
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How To Use hug In A Sentence

  • The aerobrake - a huge, convex disc underneath the spacecraft - was producing friction with the Martian atmosphere.
  • Regardless of the outcome of the trial, the whole episode has been a huge embarrassment to English football.
  • Among profuse schools of trevallies and barracuda, huge tunas and a host of sharks cruise the sheer wall.
  • Depending on the size of your pippy bag, the proportions will be all wrong, and it will look a bit like a three-dimensional stick person with a huge bloated hydrocephalic head, but don't worry about that. Hooting Yard
  • Larger butter pieces (not huge, of course, but quite a bit larger than “wet sand”) result in a flakier biscuit. 2009 March | Baking Bites
  • Every large town will have quite a few horologers and jewelers with a vast selection of fancy watches displayed their windows, with huge price tags to go with them.
  • Frankly I don't understand why most companies don't follow the same policy as franked income in the hands of shareholders is worth a lot more to them than huge piles of franking credits mouldering away in the company's balance sheet.
  • The huge amounts that this would bring in would allow the personal allowance to be raised by a couple of thousand, helping those on low and medium incomes.
  • And at the same time the huge body tried to take the invader and enwomb it. The Gunslinger
  • We all are monoplane wing angel, only then hugs, can soar.
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