How To Use Hook In A Sentence

However, by that time I was so hooked by the story that I let it pass.
A letter to his wife in 1847 tells of a visit to the Brights at Rochdale; how 'John and I discorded in our views not a little', and how 'I shook peaceable Brightdom as with Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies
So it was either scurvy-flavored hookers and gin-soaked alkies, or nothing at all. PAUL IS UNDEAD
When fishing the ocean you need a good quality reel that is corrosion proof and fitted with a good quality and workable drag system that won't seize up when you hook that big one.
The picture above demonstrates the details of a table cloth weaved with crochet hooks.

They searched for his body, handlining with grappling hooks, setting gill nets straight offshore and hauling seine. AMAGANSETT
He reached up with a hooked pole to roll down the metal shutter.
The easiest way to support vine crops like cucumbers and tomatoes is to tie their stems to polyethylene string running from a support bar attached to ceiling hooks or from a support frame.
We were kept on tenterhooks for hours while the judges chose the winner.
The lower mandible, which is powerful, and is indented at its point to receive the hook, has a very sharp edge, which, with that of the upper mandible, constitutes a pair of formidable shears. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
It simply consists of a steel hook and a piece of rope with a loop on the end.
Even the shoes, booties with vertiginous heels, were covered in grasping little coral-like tentacles that shook as the models -- their faces abloom with gold and colorful stripes -- stomped down the catwalk. Balmain, Zac Posen, Rick Owens & Manish Arora Out Of This World In Paris (PHOTOS, POLL)
I have caught plenty more on hook and line than they have noodling (they call it grappling around here), so I don't think it is something that we should be concerned with. What do you guys think about noodling? have you ever gone? or do you think its wrong?
They spearfish & dive for lobster, but almost never fish with hook & line. Which Fishing Cult is the Most Insane?
The iron hooks that prisoners were chained to are still visible on the walls.
The doctor looked at the medication I'd been given and shook his head with a slightly incredulous look.
Marya shook her head, her neatly bobbed dark hair brushing against high cheekbones.
You can hook up two DisplayPort-compatible computers to a single monitor (and keyboard and mouse, obvs) without converters.
Trichuris was more prevalent in urban children, Ascaris and hookworm were more common in rural children, and hookworm was particularly rare in the urban area.
This continued in to the dressing rooms at half-time where coach Delio Rossi had no choice but to hook the emotional Azzuri international, claiming he was 'inconsolable'. Which club has put the most final nails in managerial coffins? | The Knowledge
It looks like a preying mantis, has a huge hook to snare its prey and is coming to a rocky shoreline near you.
He filled me in, unbidden, on the local hooker scene.
The man was never as much of a sucker for a hook as Elton John was, but throughout 'The Soul Cages', Sting defiantly resists hummability as if a mere catchy pop chorus were too frivolous for such weighty content. The Soul Cages
On Saturday we finished the fencing, stapling sheep netting to the rails, and on Sunday gave the pig ark and the old chook ark a coat of water-based preservative.
Suddenly an arm hooked around my neck.
The muppet was then slid down to the eye of the hook so that it formed a skirt around the top of the squid bait.
They shook hands in a very male, unaffectionate sort of way.
Former Springbok hooker Shaun Povey and scrumming expert Dougie Heymans have also arrived at the camp to assist coaching staff in preparing the forwards.
We hooked up with the wedding party towards the inebriate end of the evening - my word, did we ever.
Chook! she was crying, and the dogs whined and yelped in eagerness of desire and effort to overtake Big THE RACE FOR NUMBER ONE
This, Stuart was told, would give enough time to detach the hooks from their mouths and let them free, with relatively little danger to the catcher.
The bed stood in one corner, a rough wooden frame hooked to the wall and ropes looping back and forth to support a mattress. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
She shook her head and told him that two of her lower teeth had cavities.
= -- The parasites found in food in this country are echinococcus, guineaworm, hookworm, trichina, and tapeworm. The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)
It is said that Scheiner, on hearing this in a Rome bookshop, turned purple and shook violently.
The building shook like an earthquake.
Although sequence similarities among some of the rod and hook proteins were noted in early analyses 24, the degree of paralogy for the ancestral set of flagellar genes, and its implications for the origins of the bacterial flagellum, have gone unrecognized. Update on PNAS flagellum paper - The Panda's Thumb
In clothes, "une agrafe" is a hook used for fastening 2 edges of material together - usually more reliable than "un bouton-pression" (= a press button) Agrafer - French Word-A-Day
Damp casein is very like damp cheese and its elastic behaviour is anything but Hookean.
Grandfather sold the russets and the codlings and the pippins from his orchard, and those he didn't sell he stored in his pristine white-washed cellar, where huge black hams and sides of bacon were hanging from black hooks.
For him, the fiend that shook his faith was the ichneumon wasp, which lays its eggs inside the larvae of the horntail wasp.
The vehicle is robustly built for carrier take-off and landings and uses a conventional wheeled take-off and landing with an arrestor hook.
I shook my head at him, trying to look like a warning, a big frown to exaggerate gravity. WHITE LIES
I shivered suddenly, and then shook as with an ague and spent the rest of the night sitting up before the. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
The production is full of perceptions that glint and flash like the Captain's hook. Times, Sunday Times
She shook her fists to the heavens at the injustice of it all.
Earlier albums were often melodic yet somehow not catchy, but focused songwriting here makes the riffs memorably hooky.
At the font he shook off the assistance of the sidesman and meandered down the aisle. THE MAIN CAGES
She shook her head uncertainly and drank some of the Coca-Cola which seemed to be on the table in front of her. LAST SHOT
They told of one car company that hooks people up to electrical equipment and cameras and runs images past them. Christianity Today
The wind of evening shook the dark leaves to a thin airy cackle. The Garden Party, and Other Stories
A good lawyer might fudge the issue for his client - not sufficiently to get him off the hook, but sufficiently to suggest that he honestly felt himself justified in making a second marriage.
The school's culinary dean recalls being hung from a meat hook for improperly boning veal during one of his 14-hour days as an apprentice in 1949 Germany.
From a standing position bend your left knee and cross your right leg around your left leg, hooking your right foot on your left leg. Times, Sunday Times
The Democratic political calculation with ObamaCare is the proverbial boiling frog: Gradually introduce a health-care entitlement by hiding the true costs, hook the middle class on new subsidies until they become unrepealable, but try to delay the adverse consequences and major new tax hikes so voters don't make the connection between their policy and the economic wreckage. The ObamaCare Writedowns
On the stroke of half time Oxford once again scythed through the shaky gold defence, hooker Andy Dalgleish supplying Bradshaw with the perfect pass to score his second of the evening.
His hand as it shook hers was warm and firm.
Hi waists'Anziqiang, the gun linked to fimbriatum Hook.
After doning my vest I started putting a hook onto my line. First Big Game Encounter
Once or twice a day the intrepid fisherman ‘runs’ his trot line meaning he gets in a boat and checks the hook dangling beneath each float and if necessary sticks a fresh perch on it for bait.
But the man shook the knife at him. Christianity Today
Wulfgar steadied her with a hand upon her shoulder, but she shook her head and peeled the legging back further. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Bunbury was staring in awful fascination at Windrush, who opened his mouth to wreck the entire con - hook, line and sinker. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
The end of the road had come for the SAP, which rumbled and shook violently, punctured wing panels beginning to peel away in the slipstream.
Some shook with superstitious dread; others, driven to atheistical despair, with horrible execrations, again strove to force a passage through the doors. The Scottish Chiefs
As the furniture got bigger, you would be required to hook two bungee cords together. The Times Literary Supplement
I also need a hammer and nails, picture hooks and the step ladder.
Last year, Wavves (a.k.a. Nathan Williams) emerged from the crowded, static-filled indie-rock underground thanks to an abundance of pop hooks that fought through the fuzz of his lo-fi home recordings. Getting Up Guide: Spoken-word showcase; Sly Fox brew tasting
_Hake_ in Norwegian means hook, and the term hake or hook-fish was given because of the hooked character of the under-jaw. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year
As they grunted and jabbed, Mr. McCain chatted with a few players and their coaches, shook a few hands and then headed to the sidelines. McCain Huddles With Marshall Team - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
The Securities and Exchange Commission had charged the bank with covering up for outrageous bonuses given out at Merrill Lynch as the bank acquired the failed stockbrokerage, and now it was letting the bank off the hook with a chicken-feed fine. Robert Scheer: Letting the Banking Rats Out of the Bag
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Grasp the bar with a shoulder-width grip and unhook it from the safety catch.
Small as are the capitula of this flower, its seeds or achenia are armed with awns having reflexed hooks scarcely visible to the naked eye; it is these that are found so troublesome among the wool. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
Their set consisted of hooky pop gems that relied on guitar and punch for most of the power, and the mixture was a pleasing one.
He hugged hundreds of babies, shook thousands of hands and cut ribbons at new universities, high-tech factories and a hospital.
So far it was thought to belong to a mad scientist, who had a hook for a hand, and had killed twenty females while trying to create the elixir of life.
When chasing whiting and garfish I like to use small long-shank hooks.
Star Trek didn't just offer the illimitable joys of William Shatner tumbling out of his chair every time the camera shook, or yet another sermon from the pen of Gene Roddenberry about how organized religion is a childish superstition.
Because the work is demanding and intimate, they see themselves as closer to therapists than to hookers - and have deep, long-lasting ties to their regulars.
He was thin and tall, with a hooked nose.
He raved, he cursed, he shook his fists in my face, and then suddenly a horrible spasm passed over his features, he clapped his hand to his side, and with a loud cry he fell in a heap at my feet.
The hotel group is also standardising amenities - including bath products, TVs, new beds and technology hook-ups - at all its hotels, which it categorizes as four-star properties.
A few hours later Benjamin shook me awake.
I joined that league partway through the season, and I was hooked on the tenpin game.
Fishing a groundbait feeder with chopped worm he fished redworm on the hook tempting small carp and tench.
Constitution: By attachment, drive pipe, bottle cap, bottle body, dip pipe, support and suspension hook constitution.
I shook my head as I flipped through the hanging outfits until I came to one labeled with my name.
Stand in front of them for a few moments and see how quickly you get hooked. Times, Sunday Times
Sensing trouble, Daniel shook his head and stuck his chocolate wafer into her cone.
As more and more woke up, a rising chorus of shrieks for help shook hoarfrost from the vaulted stones, and eventually called help.
When mixed in among boundary plants it may even enhance security as the branches bear hooked prickles which reduce its tactility.
Using the hook like a weaver's batten, he secured the heaving line under the two-inch rope that ran the length of the deck. LET NOT THE DEEP
J Fibiger, Cle (hooking), 10: 01; C Valette, Cle (roughing), 12: 47; R USATODAY.com
Yep, that Soviet nerve gas, all hooked up to a computerized bomb.
But, I figure those two wonderful, kooky kids could hook her up with the best places to go for music and fun.
Someone stepping on his foot shook him to reality again, Sally's big eyes willed him to stay in focus, but he just couldn't.
She unbraided her hair, unhooked her silver bracelet from her left wrist, and laid it on the counter.
He maintained his ascendancy in the third round, landing a hard left hook which opened another cut, this time on Williams' right eye-lid.
Accipitrids are diurnal birds of prey with broad wings, hooked beaks, strong legs and feet and sharp talons.
The organisers would appreciate any donations of knitting wool, patterns, knitting needles, crochet hooks or any old material.
She shook her head and laughed as she continued stirring her mochaccino.
The men I spoke to genuinely thought they'd completed their families then divorce hit and they hooked up with childless women. Times, Sunday Times
My favorite fishing knife is a yellow handle Case XX with a thin, pointed blade, hook hone, bottle opener, scaler and hook remover. On Favorite Fishing Knives
They can see hooks hanging out from the baitfish in clear water and they'll spook easily if they can see the bait isn't swimming just right.
It's also shaped like a bra so it's easier to get on and off - I hook the eyelets while wearing it backwards and then shift the bra around to get my arms through it.
Jenny shouted with a voice of thunder that shook the air in a composed earthquake.
Nothing ever shook her faith in God.
We can hook people up with low-budget accommodations.
Most of the amputees, Kuniholm included, have elected to use simple, body-operated hooks whose basic technologies date back to World War I instead of the current generation of myoelectric arms that read muscle signals from electrodes on the skin. Move Over Prosthetic Arm | Impact Lab
Sanar shook her head and smiled, the moment of the vision lost. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
A young boy climbed into the apple tree and shook the branches so that the fruit fell down.
He spent a number of years hooked on cocaine, heroin and alcohol.
Once we learnt about this virtuous cycle, we were hooked. Times, Sunday Times
Hang your clothes on the hook.
When a fish bites the hook, the float bobs.
She shook her head, giving the dragon a meaningful glance.
The hooker said: 'I am just itching to play again. The Sun
Sniggers because you get four-by-two from the armourer who has a hooked tool for getting broken pull-th roughs out of the barrel. Bottled Spider
And directly afterwards he went to his favorite hooker and crapped his diapers for a little ‘Mommy Cleanup’. Think Progress » Vitter receives standing ovation at Southern Republican Leadership Conference.
Tow truck came back about an hour later, hooked up the car… after a little panic when his tow rope stopped moving… and I had visions of them having to send out another truck.
Fifty three years ago India shook off the yoke of British imperialism and became independent.
Pratt can play in a number of positions - wing, stand-off, hooker or even loose forward.
This may be done by hand, or in a mixer with the dough-hook on the slowest speed. Times, Sunday Times
I shook my head in mock pity as Chela attempted to comfort Micheal.
It lies to the radial side of the pisiform bone and the ulnar side of the hook of the hamate (the bones forming a protective canal for the artery), which is covered by the palmer carpal ligament.
He then licked his finger and shook his head with a look of disgust.
He shook the blankets vigorously to get rid of the dust.
They sounded like a montage of countless funk and soul classics, but lacked the hooks to become hits. Times, Sunday Times
Falco's hooker-girlfriend wants enough money to send her son to a decent school; the john whom Falco sets her up with only wants a "chuckle" - a moment of sexual fun to help him forget who he is. Eurozine articles
I got really hooked on them when I was skint as a student. The Sun
They swaggered down the street, hooking on each other.
I hooked my thumbs through my belt loops and observed the class.
But what I could not have told you three days ago was that a cocotte is a hooker like a cocotte is a cooker. French Word-A-Day:
I remember catching a ballan wrasse and, on unhooking it, being surprised to find thick white teeth of the sort you might expect to see in a human mouth.
To pull the drogue, I hook the ring with my thumb.
And the storylines are clever enough that even viewers who aren't pre-teen girls can get hooked on the show.
The thud of artillery shook sandy ground underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
She plays a hard-faced hooker who becomes a serial killer.
He shook his head to dismiss the troublesome thoughts, and dug his spurs into the flanks of the horse.
And with the social context on top of location, we show a unique kind of view to what's actually happening on the ground, " Skyhook's VP of Marketing, Kate Imbach says.
i love u soooooooo much and great job 4 hooking up with alex when colies boyfriend was there … … … .. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
Vibrations shook the panel loose.
There were children paddling in the streams, and girls carrying brushwood bundles on their heads, and old men sitting in the shade, sucking at their silver hookahs.
Kali mai la o Malio o ka hoi aku o Halaaniani e hai aku i kana mea i ike ai, aole nae i hoi aku, nolaila, hoomau hou aku la o Malio i ke puhi i ka pu la-i elima hookani ana, aole no i ike iki o Halaaniani i ka nana o The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai
Just hook the bucket onto the rope and lower it down.
Today we will concentrate on the inside hook, the digger.
He gets regular invitations to hook up with fellow ex-pat bluenoses and take in TV games, invitations he is happy to accept.
Bad luck, I hope,won't hook on to me in two days.
Slide bead over the hook barb leaving it resting against the eye of the hook.
Unhooked a smart black overcoat with a velvet collar.
When it moved, it shook his vital organs as if he was standing on an earthquake simulator in a geology museum, and when it spoke, his nerves jumped and jangled in his body.
The electrical hookups look frightening, but the luz is very good; we run through an external surge protector and if the corriente is too low or too high or polarity reversed, it is no go. Huasteca Potosina
Taking a tight grip on the hook, he began to pull it towards himself.
True co-dependency is achieved when he hooks up with Jen, a girlfriend who also gets regularly blitzed.
This is a clever ploy to hook the booklovers after giving them the taste of the best of fiction reads.
Hook the rope through your belt.
A Siwash single hook on the back of a spoon is a classic example. 25 Tips for Tackle
He shook his head as he glossed over the mathematical equations again.
He was still asleep and I shook him gently awake and told him.
Ought to have taken a rising vote of dudes, hey, to find out whether I had the right to h'ist my mudhook or not? Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916
Set in 1912 New York, The Iceman Cometh spotlights the failed lives, empty hopes, and perpetual pipedreams of the stewbums, anarchists, and hookers of Harry Hope's seedy saloon.
With a fine disregard for geography, she decided to start her journey to Paris by sailing to the Hook of Holland.
The area of the Lower Main, for eight decades synonymous with mobsters, hookers, dive bars and steamies, can now be officially known as The Target.
They were unhooking the towline when Angel received a transmission from Brother Cyrus. The Omega Theory
The hook that caught him was the girl's attitude.
The fishing is catch-and-release, and the young anglers are outfitted with cane poles and spincast outfits rigged with bobbers and hooks.
That leaves the oxygen with a very friendly bond dangling, and it likes to hook up with its nearby carbon buddy, to form what is called the carbonyl bond. Alcohol
The 'minx' shook her curls, and flirted through the window with a handsome but ill-tempered looking man on a fine horse, who praised her 'golden locks,' as he called them; and oddly enough, when Melchior said that the man was a lout, and that the locks in question were corkscrewy carrot shavings, she only seemed to like the man and his compliments the more. In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World
Meanwhile, more religions are ransacked for metaphor than Joseph Campbell ever shook his shtick at.
The horse whickered and shook her head, sending Keegan flying through the air.
Hurstwood shook hands with them most cordially . He was very roseate physically.
This may be a first for international diplomacy: a world leader bragging about the prowess of his nation's hookers. Times, Sunday Times
He turned to gaze at the lake and then shook his head in a knowing way.
He can roll or slice his backhand, hook his forehand short, or hit it with a mix of pace and top spin that is formidable.
The sound of my name shook my concentration, and I blinked once. The Haunted
The hull is then faired and painted in the traditional black for the Galway hookers.
The album is content to rely on the old hip-hop cliches, piling on the swear words and overloading each track with references to whores, pimps, hookers and drugs.
A pained expression dulled his features, and he shook his head. One Summer Evening
Tremolite's long fibers are barbed like fishhooks.
Gently hooking the single clip to a lug on one side of the socket, I then slowly dropped the Volcano into place and used a flathead screwdriver to fasten the clip to the other lug.
With a few hours of ski lessons, many beginners catch on well enough to find themselves hooked for life on a downhill descent.
The writer's body finds itself dismantled, brutalised, shook up, helpless, useless puppet, prey to disorganised ideas.
It is said to succeed better than thymol in hookworm (uncinariasis) and, unlike that agent, can be given in association with castor oil, the latter also increasing its efficiency.
The hooklets, which have been often mentioned, are quite elaborate, and they are in fact one of many kinds of projections.
The AbitibiBowater paper mill near Liverpool is expected to reopen as planned next week, though the community is on "tenterhooks" as the company seeks bankruptcy protection, the mayor of the region says. CBC | Top Stories News
The characteristic appearance of Gujarati chain-stitch embroidery, whether done with a hook or a needle, however, is common to both formats.
Joe's resolve crumbled further as he nearly shook with rage.
Kathy had already been given the hook, and the OMG was here to lay out the shizzle before everyone got excited. The Coming of the Apocalypse
A flotation ring was thrown to him and he hooked it with one arm, wrapping the other around her waist as they were pulled toward the cruiser.
Any search for some one aggressive in the container business - apart from Sherwood - was bound to lead to Tiphook.
She shook her head at me, I remember, and I said something about her rheumatic hands finding hot dishes a problem. A DEATH IN TIME
TBD is not the usual show I would watch, but it has me hooked, even watched it through the commercials which i never do as i usually wait after it has been PVRed. You Be the Critic: THE BLACK DONNELLYS & THE TUDORS | the TV addict
More than a third of those waiting need a new kidney and have to be hooked up to a dialysis machine four times a week. The Sun
If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore?
She opened her mouth, snapped in shut, and then shook her head.
The farewell gesture, the offer to bring Livy and her to America, shook Isa as no other presage of war had so far done. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
In the brightly illuminated room beyond the hall Helena and Gregory were playing parchesi -- Gregory firmly grasped the cup from which he intently rolled the dice; Helena shook the fair hair from her eyes and, it immediately developed, moved a pink marker farther than proper. Cytherea
I shook my head and told him that I was not a decorator and would not engage one.
Brazilian youngster practices his learning skills on a computer hooked up to the internet, at a school run by a non-profit organization set up in a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro.

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