How To Use Hooked In A Sentence

However, by that time I was so hooked by the story that I let it pass.
He reached up with a hooked pole to roll down the metal shutter.
Suddenly an arm hooked around my neck.
We hooked up with the wedding party towards the inebriate end of the evening - my word, did we ever.
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

_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
He was thin and tall, with a hooked nose.
I joined that league partway through the season, and I was hooked on the tenpin game.
Stand in front of them for a few moments and see how quickly you get hooked. Times, Sunday Times
When mixed in among boundary plants it may even enhance security as the branches bear hooked prickles which reduce its tactility.
Yep, that Soviet nerve gas, all hooked up to a computerized bomb.
She unbraided her hair, unhooked her silver bracelet from her left wrist, and laid it on the counter.
Accipitrids are diurnal birds of prey with broad wings, hooked beaks, strong legs and feet and sharp talons.
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
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
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
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.
I got really hooked on them when I was skint as a student. The Sun
I hooked my thumbs through my belt loops and observed the class.
And the storylines are clever enough that even viewers who aren't pre-teen girls can get hooked on the show.
Unhooked a smart black overcoat with a velvet collar.
With a few hours of ski lessons, many beginners catch on well enough to find themselves hooked for life on a downhill descent.
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.
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
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.
He spent a number of years hooked on cocaine, heroin and alcohol.
The sagas attracted huge audiences, hooked on every clichéd twist and turn of the predictable plot.
There are cordless phones that can be hooked up to company switchboards, using the same technology as home cordless phones.
The bonxie surveyed me coldly, raising dark wings and issuing a harsh double croak from its hooked, halfopen beak. Times, Sunday Times
Now fast-forward and the great fish is hooked. Times, Sunday Times
The seas around West Kerry have been throwing up some very unusual species of fish in recent days and the latest haul included three white albinos which were hooked by Irish fishermen.
-- N.S. (Fig. 141.) Shell fusiform, contracted above the body-whirl, and forming thereby a sub-cylindrical spire; spire obtuse apex papillated and hooked; body-whirl plaited longitudinally at its top; columellar lip furnished with only two plaits. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
Thousands of birds are being hooked and drowned on baited longlines set for fish.
A sprayer hooked to a tractor can spray five gallons onto ten acres.
Of course, this great need for all things me... was parallelled in intensity by my complete and overwhelming need to get my office hooked up. Phew!!
I unhooked Glory from the crossties and took his halter off, before placing his bridle on and adjusting the straps.
It was through him that Mr Jackson became hooked on watching the badgers in their natural habitat.
From the opening bars, I was hooked not only on the piece, but on the composer - to me, a major voice.
I rummaged through some boxes to find his leash and hooked it on his collar.
He took the vac outside, got the extension cord out, hooked it all up and ran it all the way to the car.
The problem is that the desirables are already hooked up.
While the chopper hovered above Coire Na Ciste, bouncing violently in the downdrafts, we looked on as the body was hooked to a cable by rescuers and reeled up into the aircraft.
Some very good fish have been landed in the past week, with more being hooked and lost.
The great ugly sharky fish was hooked forward by Josh and placed in a great basket, where it lay writhing its eely tail, and flapping its wing-like fins as the boat slowly progressed, and bait after bait was replaced, many being untouched, the thornback, skate, or ray being the only fish taken. Menhardoc
And with rubber that is soft to the skin and an innovative flexing joint to keep your toes from hyperextending they're more comfortable than anything you've rented—it's gear like this that will get you hooked. aqualung.com Fins To Go
The car on the bottom of the lake was hooked in and hoisted on to the bank.
He hooked his arm in mine and slowly led me to the dining room.
I just received my copy, sat down to read a little and got hooked, working my way through the entire thing before I put it down.
Stunned zoo visitors watched as the big cat pounced, hooked the bird with a claw through its cage, then held it with his teeth. The Sun
These days, in fact, he tries to identify bears - such as the sow and her cubs we're looking for - that might get hooked and move them well before they do.
Once you get hooked on daytrading online, video games just lose their allure. Bleep. Bloop. Zap. « Whatever
A hooked drive is instant trouble as thick gorse awaits. The Sun
Now fast-forward and the great fish is hooked. Times, Sunday Times
She certainly doesn't seem overly concerned about it, mind you, even if most of her friends are hooked up.
The second face was withered and ancient, with watery eyes peering out from above a crooked hooked nose.
So I just unhooked it from the computer and hooked it into the fax machine.
He is said to have a long face, sunken cheeks, a long protruding chin and a large hooked nose.
So soft, so true, so much chiff … After a lot of international to-ing and fro-ing I managed to order one, and I was hooked. BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Whistle While You Geek
The cultured, slightly hooked nose she had inherited from her mother should have looked sharp on a thin face like hers, but to me it had always held an air of regality.
Besides, while individual investors are turned off, Europe's governments, whatever their political coloration, are totally hooked on the markets.
With their hooked beaks they would scoop out small fish and algae and then gobble it up in a hurry.
Kath held out her pinkie and Chloe hooked fingers with her.
It was Conran, the legendary English visionary who democratized design by making it more accessible and affordable, who hooked me on to the power and appeal of great design.
Music first hooked her at four. Times, Sunday Times
Unstoppable overspill of abundant fruits and berries, stitched chain of natural hues, fabricant, barbarous, unhooked and lost nobility of the ‘real thing’ rhapsode -
Barrie's eyes were cold, hard, and dark gazing out at her from over a hooked nose.
New fans hooked by this one will be happy to know that his backlist is even richer. The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly: Book summary
Check that the computer is hooked up to the printer.
No, I cannot lay down with a hanger hooked on a zipper trying to mash my fleshy body into a dress too small for me.
One of them sat on my couch the other day hooked up to tubes and suctions and a giant deconstructed bra, looking like some fetish ad, or a footnote from the Josef Mengele years. The Case Against Breast-Feeding
His long, curved neck, wrinkled face and hooked nose gave him an appearance similar to that of a vulture.
He hooked his shot over the bar.
Shrikes use their hooked bills to break the necks of vertebrate prey.
Holman and her colleagues queried 274 college students on how they defined the term "hookup" and how often they themselves hooked up. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
The fishermen were catching Patagonian toothfish, sold under the name Chilean sea bass, south of New Zealand "and the squid was eating a hooked toothfish when it was hauled from the deep," Anderton said. Archive 2007-02-01
Another jagged block had hooked an engine, tearing it from the wing, rupturing the wing's fuel tank and spinning the entire plane around.
The planks also suggest a process of dematerialization, which is immediately contradicted by the fencelike structure behind them and on which the objects are hooked, in turn giving emphasis to the wall. Artforum.com
It's possible to get hooked on prescription drugs and painkillers almost the world over. The Sun
As for the future, Randall is a beer connoisseur and would love to someday grow hops and barley and get Mexicans "hooked on hops beer. Zirahuen, Michoacan: Mexico's Walden Pond
Bankrolled by a few small grants, a handful of Tucsonans hooked up a 1-800 number to see if anyone would call.
Her hair was a creamy light brown - almost blond - and her eyes shone bright green over a slightly hooked nose.
During my first week working at a tech company I was introduced to scrum through our software development team, and I was instantly hooked.
Maynard Dixon presented a slender, almost angular appearance with deep blue eyes, straight dark hair cascading toward one eye, a rakish mustache, slightly hooked nose, and long, facile hands.
Since then, like a lot of anglers in recent years, he's been hooked by antique tackle as well.
As we approached the anglers, they hooked and landed an immature striped bass.
The company had hired a standard Sony digital tape recorder which was hooked to Johnson's own analogue-to-digital conversion system.
I hooked up the gun which had dropped in the well.
But the amazing mountain scenery and death-defying speed of the downhillers kept viewers hooked on a wet and cold Sunday afternoon.
I was officially hooked, and began to publicly proclaim my support.
I saw many other birds in my month on Fair Isle, far rarer ones: I found a woodchat shrike, a streaky youngster with a grownup hooked bill, that should have been on the other side of Europe; I became adept at listening for the soft calls of common rosefinches, the blandest of birds with the beadiest of eyes; I knew where a buff-breasted sandpiper blown from North America roosted. A Year on the Wing
I must admit I am still hooked on the series, the developing characters and their ongoing, individual stories.
Use a similar hooked connection to attach the Earth wire and the wire leading from S1 to the solder tag.
Once you get hooked on composting, you'll even start going after the local barber for hair, and even saving dryer lint!
What I mean is that some people are alcoholics and some are hooked to drugs.
My Other Half, who normally surfs a longboard and looked down his nose at my foam boogieboard, tried my bellyboard once and was hooked!
There was the vulture, a magnificent image of the bird, the fierce eyes glaring and the yellow beak hooked and spread wide, with each feather ointed. The Seventh Scroll
Using a long hooked pole, he yanked down the mistletoe from the boughs of an old apple tree.
He unhooked his arm and grabbed a plastic cup from the bag on the counter.
The first time I heard his exact guitar picking and gentle voice I was hooked; the sophistication and pop sensibility of his songs left me fuzzy-warm.
When I view my own conversions on my standalone hooked up to my TV set I never see that "shakiness". VideoHelp.com Forum
WOMEN are becoming hooked on what used to be seen as a man's sport - angling. The Sun
And then I got my fourth with a hooked shot. The Sun
A black-haired, thickly-bearded man in the middle of the soldiers with his armour hanging over a pot belly stepped forward, thumbs hooked through his sword belt.
Payton hooked his trumpet up to a wah-wah pedal for a song that recalled the blaxploitation flair of the Shaft movie theme. Disquiet » Digital Voodoo
‘Mustn't be cruel to animals, my boy,’ he reproved, with both palms cradling the gleaming-orange face so that it hooked to his own faintly stern one.
As a doctor could find himself hooked on the drugs he administers, introspection is morphine for a songwriter like me. Times, Sunday Times
Gorman stood there holding his hat, his umbrella hooked on his wrist.
I got hooked on the good feeling, and, for all you baseball fans - ya know the "Citgo" sign you can see in Fenway park looking towards the outfield? Why Don’t More Women Ride? « PubliCola
However, he kept out of our way and unhooked our tape for us if it became caught.
I just found one that I am spending more time on and that is: www. songfacts.com nfl. com gamepass just joined to catch the out of market games my sone is a big dolphins fan and he can never watch any of the games so I hooked him up Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories
Once the fish is hooked and the line comes tight the pollack will turn and dive for the nearest cover.
The player, whose careless touches cost Aberdeen possession all afternoon, hooked it over the bar with his left foot.
There is no indication of any special differentiation of the fifth metatarsal, which is hooked in other squamates.
They were primitive small cylinders, not hooked up to water pipes or drains, with no spin dryers or wringers.
The old experiment where tomatos are hooked to an EKG and "scream" when sliced is often used to establish a scientific basis for the consciousness of plants. Breaking News: Plants Strive To Live
It's difficult to wean an addict off cocaine once they're hooked.
For the first couple of weeks I dug up nothing but shot gun cartridges and buttons and then I found a Charles I shilling and I was hooked.
Then with the trigger finger depress the gate open and let the pull-carry loop slide off over the the hooked end of the snaplink/carabiner. WN.com - Articles related to World Trade Center (PG-13)
Once you are in the trash zone, you will be hooked and unable to wait for the follow-up to the fantastic cliffhanger fade-out.
Partway through the shoot I realized my belly button ring was unhooked and had gotten caught in my pant button.
The gun is run in and laid square under the housing-bolt, the bed and quoin removed, the muzzle elevated and secured as in the housing position; then, after un-keying and throwing back the cap-squares, the breech is bowsed up clear of the carriage by means of the train-tackle, hooked in the eye of a runner, the block of which hooks in an eye-bolt in the beam over the gun. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
It has a sort of hooked bit on the end and almost certainly has some quaint name like `cordwangler's grommet disengager '. KICK BACK
He had hooked himself now, as the tremendous jerk he gave the cable proved, and the sailors began to haul in the monster by means of tackle attached to the mainyard. In Search of the Castaways
He then teed up his ball… and duck-hooked it right into the side of his own house.
These arthropods have a fork-like structure (called furcula) at the hind end that is hooked under their abdomen. Durangoherald.com
A pump in each pond recirculates water through a filter; a float hooked to a water line and spigot automatically adjusts the water level of each.
Stunned zoo visitors watched as the big cat pounced, hooked the bird with a claw through its cage, then held it with his teeth. The Sun
Capcom hooked us up with some nifty Joe swag, including autographed posters, limited-edition laser cells, t-shirts, hats, and - of course - a copy of the game!
She hooked her arm in mine and we practically ran to a private secluded area.
Often, the morning after they hooked up with their friend, the couple would cocoon.
The Namir - meaning 'tiger' - is a joint development between Frazer-Nash Research and Giugiaro and uses a 814cc "endothermic" rotary engine to charge a 400V 108-cell lithium-ion battery pack that is, in turn, hooked up to four electric motors - two per axle - that together generate 362bhp (270kW). The Register
He extended a hooked claw and jimmied the window open.
A huge witch, with her hooked nose, black cape and hat and broomstick stared out from an assortment of wonderful Hallowe'en creations, all made by the children.
Chad gently set the camera atop the tripod and hooked the wires up one at a time, carefully connecting the correct colors together.
Nobody wants their brain scooped out of their skull and dumped into a tank of fluid and hooked up to an autodialer, selling home compost technology. Archive 2007-09-01
I took it out, plugged it into the power source, connected it to the Internet connection and hooked it up to a 250 Gb Seagate Freeagent drive. Pogoplug: My MacBook Air’s Second New Best Friend
I hooked my thumbs around the front belt loops of my jeans.
In the end, it's the old contradictory chestnut of being both repulsed and attracted simultaneously that keeps you hooked.
The real culprit that was slowing the line was a bar code scanner that was incorrectly hooked up… sort of.
My nose is thin, but more hooked than I would like.
The unusual hooked rug at the top on the right dates from 1900 to 1910 and was found in Saugerties, New York.
The bungling firm suddenly realised residents had hooked up their homes to the grid for free. The Sun
He unhooked the clasps and allowed the mask to fall down.
They have a large head, a wide, flat, hooked bill, large eyes and a large gape.
We were well rewarded when our hunter hooked a big seal on to the ice. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
She knows that I am hooked on football, mad about it.
He had cold blue eyes with pale blonde hair and a hooked crooked nose that made his feature ugly.
Using a long hooked pole, he yanked down the mistletoe from the boughs of an old apple tree.
Typically, Harrington took his punishment on the chin but was struggling to maintain this sort of impressive equilibrium when he hooked his drive into woods off the 2nd tee yesterday and then played pinball with the same tree twice to eventually run up a nine, just one shot short of the Masters "eejit" record on this par five. The Guardian World News
Her wrists were hooked to a D ring on the back of her collar, and for once she didn't have a gag filling her mouth.
Son is hoping to turbocharge revenues by getting his broadband subscribers hooked on services such as games that bring in extra cash.
Statistics show that almost all smokers were hooked on tobacco as adolescents.
But once several fish have been hooked you can see the difference in all the carp in that water.
Having an interest in all things vulpine, I was immediately hooked, and deserted Mr Waley's book of translations in favour of this new find.
Andrew nodded, tore a page out of the sketch book in his pocket and scratched out his number with a stumpy pencil hooked in the books ring binder.
I recently got hooked on white short sleeve undershirts and wear them under polos or button down shirts every day.
She also suffered kidney problems and for nearly three years spent four days a week hooked up to a dialysis machine. The Sun
Also, one can spot grey hornbills, with their hooked beaks perched on the branches in meditative silence.
He lifted a shoulder this time, and reached out to unhook Smokey's claw which had gotten hooked in my shirt.
Nicola had been addicted to heroin for six years, becoming hooked when a friend offered her the drug.
But the creature's most unusual feature was a set of long, asymmetric feathers with hooked barbs on its hind limbs and forelimbs.
When dry, the gold is burnished with a hooked or rounded tool called a burnisher.
They also sold a credit-hooked country the idea of "masstige," or mass luxury.
Ask a grown-up to attach a hooked chain to the centre top bar.
Nicotine is what gets smokers hooked, but it is all the other components in tobacco that cause the major health harms. Times, Sunday Times
This long weekend will see a nation boss-eyed with self-indulgent excitement, hooked on the dangerous drug of royal nostalgia.
The dogs were dragged out using special poles that hooked round their necks, and loaded into cages in cars. The Sun
They also have a hooked beak, and look very sinister when perched on top of a hedgerow tree looking around them for prey. Times, Sunday Times
There is about the scene a feeling of deep rural repose: the occasional buzz of a hornet, the halfhearted peck of an odd stray hen scratching amid the clumps of cowitch begonia, perhaps the soft flip-and-splash of a hooked perch in some nearby fern-banked pond, or a supperbound catfish in one of the creeks. I Tina
She's probably got a hooked nose, a pointed hat, a large black cauldron, a broomstick and a black cat.
I remember reading about a study where researchers hooked heart monitors up to various NASCAR drivers while they took practice laps around the track.
After a contest of strenght between the hooked subject and myself, me being the victor, a deckhand "gaffed" the monstrosity on my line (aka: fucking hooked it with a long poll) and hauled it aboard. Ronin622 Diary Entry
Their parents are large white and grey gulls, and have a hooked yellow beak with a red spot on it. Times, Sunday Times
A fellow came to the wicket with shoulders like a barn door and a big hooked nose. Times, Sunday Times
Her arms hooked around his neck, fingers stroking his soft, silky brown hair and tracing the top of his spine.
Fore wings slightly hooked, with an interior undulating blackish-brown line; orbicular mark black, punctiform; reniform white, black-bordered, forming a triangular spot and an anterior point; a small exterior white costa, with mark. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
On reaching the tail of the Pool just below the power lines I hooked a fish, which I soon realised, was substantial.
He cursed the vultures circling above his head, for he knew now his flesh would soon be torn to pieces by their cruel hooked beaks and he could hope for no salvation, nor a proper funeral pyre.
Back then, the gauges were hooked up to an oscillograph, a machine that recorded data in squiggly lines on a moving roll of graph paper, something like an electrocardiograph did before the digital age. The Dream Machine
The stem is almost sphere-shaped, from 4 in. to 6 in. high, the tuberculated ridges about ¼ in. deep, and upon each tubercle is a tuft of about a dozen brown, radiating spines, with a long central one hooked at the point. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation
I know a girl who got hooked on cocaine.
I unhooked my newly freed arms from the bars, leaned forward slightly to rest my chin on my hands, my elbows on my knees.
Gujarati gourmet cuisine is not something I've ever tried before, but after the first bite of the fine food at Swad's restaurant I was hooked.
After dinner, in the taxi, Anna Liu tells me that before Alessandro, Chiara had hooked-up with a conman who stalked and threatened her, beat her repeatedly and stole her money. Anna Liu and Yves (Revised)
He was hooked nonetheless, and the cloth was abandoned for khaki.
The head hooked from a thickly muscled, scaly neek and ran into a massive black chest shot through with lines of iridescent purple and azure. A Corridor in the Asylum
Shrike babblers were originally described as shrikes, because of their hooked bill, but have been subsequently placed among babblers.
Their ears were pointed, their beaks were hooked, and their obsidian eyes were large and flat, like pools, goggling at him in the rose twilight of full moons. The Soul of Yeats « Unknowing
Dropping down a few branches, I hooked my legs over a branch and hung upside down, the way I did when I was a kid.
From time to time, this man or that one will rise from his place and call to the birds in the pit, shout at the handlers, hands hooked, sawing at the air.
She hooked up with a nice couple in England, and now they exchange occasional letters.
People who are truly hooked will go to any lengths to satisfy their craving for the drug.
But then, a certain lovable someone (who prefers to remain anonymous) bought me a darling new digital camera -- right around the time that some damn fool went and hooked me up with a Flickr account ... and then somebody else was kind enough to -- out of the blue -- set me up with a paid Flickr account. April 17th, 2005
Moving quickly, she unhooked her brassiere, let it slide forward off her arms. FAMILY PICTURES
But once you taste her chicken stew called Doro Wat $18, you will be hooked... chicken on the bone cooked with ground red chilis and spices. Jay Weston: Ethiopian Food in L.A. -- A Fabulous New Dining Experience
He reached up with a hooked pole to roll down the metal shutter.
But at some point the dedication, discipline and thrill of competition stuck and he was hooked.
Touch for Women is a rich fragrance blended from cassis, dewberry and rosehip that is guaranteed to have you hooked - well we know that it worked for Sophie Dahl.

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