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Example sentences for "hook"

Lexicographically close words:
hoofbeats; hoofed; hoofmarks; hoofprints; hoofs; hookah; hookahs; hooked; hookers; hookes
  1. Here two ships stuck fast Alone, of all the fleet; the fatal hook Grappled their decks and drew them to the land, And the first bloodshed of the civil war Here left a blush upon the ocean wave.

  2. Gripped by pitiless hook O'er rocks she drags him to the mountain cave Accursed by her fell rites, that shall restore The dead man's life.

  3. Are you going to hook on to the Fleury and drag her in to port?

  4. It took only ten minutes to hook leads from the bank input to the intercommunication jackbox in the hold and to switch it in on the radio voice system.

  5. Perhaps when I promised to double his fee it made him jump after the silver hook more nimbly.

  6. Fact is, you can't find a lock in the inn, only a hook to keep the doors from flying open.

  7. I don't know the difference between a reel and a rod, and somehow I know I shan't even dare to put a worm on my hook if he's looking at me.

  8. Ah, yes, I see, your hook had caught on the bottom.

  9. You'd just wait till somebody came along and took the hook out of your mouth," was Ben's merry comment.

  10. We'll try it some more," he added, as he placed a fresh bait upon Bob's hook and threw it into the water.

  11. Suddenly George thrust the cruel hook into the water, the boat dipped dangerously, the boys were almost thrown from their seats, as with one lusty pull the monstrous fish was lifted into the air and then fell upon the bottom of the skiff.

  12. When a bass swallows your hook they call it a 'strike.

  13. They watched and waited for the longed-for "strike," and soon to Bob's great delight he felt the tug upon his line which indicated that his hook had again been seized.

  14. Back water a bit; my hook has caught in some of the grass, I guess.

  15. Captain Cuttle then kissed his hook to the ladies several times, with great elegance and gallantry; and having taken a particular leave of Paul and Florence, accompanied Walter out of the room.

  16. The Captain, with responsive gravity and mystery, immediately waved his hook towards the little parlour, whither Mr Toots followed him.

  17. He unscrewed his hook at dinner-time, and screwed a knife into its wooden socket instead, with which he had already begun to peel one of these potatoes for Walter.

  18. The inexpressibly gratified Captain kissed his hook in reply, and growled, as if a choice and delicate compliment were included in the words, 'Stand by!

  19. In beaded crochet a coloured mercerised cotton, fine enough to pass easily through the beads selected, is used with a crochet-hook corresponding in fineness to the thread.

  20. Take out the hook and make one loop, just drawn up to lie in two straight lines and slip through loop on needle, afterwards doing a chain stitch, and repeat from *.

  21. Join in the same way, inserting the hook through corresponding stitches.

  22. Put a fastening in the form of a button and button-hole, or hook and eye, or patent fastener, on each end of the belt, to complete the apron.

  23. But his limbs seemed soft and boneless; he had no nails, no teeth, and he bounced and thumped and flapped and splashed like a fish, while I rained blows on him with the boat-hook that sounded like blows on a football.

  24. Halyard's hand crept backward where a steel-shod boat-hook lay, and I also made a clutch at it.

  25. But the moment she stops, Rosie begins to hook jack again.

  26. Wouldn’t you hook jack if you wanted to, Maida?

  27. But just the same, Rosie, I hope you won’t hook jack any more for someday you’ll be sorry.

  28. Do you suppose I could ever hook jack again?

  29. Hook wrote a note to the hostess, saying, "Ask me at dinner if I will venture on an orange.

  30. Who can remember that story about Theodore Hook and the orange?

  31. Brother Copas's rod bent and relaxed to the brisk whirr of its reel as a trout took fly and hook and sucked them under.

  32. And the hook was so small that there was no place for his other hand.

  33. In any event, he could not cling to the hook much longer.

  34. Just hook your lines and jump from the wheel.

  35. It must be something even to have him on the hook for a while, Robert.

  36. In a current like this, a fish will almost always hook himself.

  37. Keep just enough pressure on him to hold the hook firm, and follow his troutship down the stream as if he were a salmon.

  38. Thine eyes have grown large and keen by peering through the foam, and the feathered hook that can deceive thee must be deftly tied and delicately cast.

  39. At these places the trout were larger, and so plentiful that it was easy to hook two at a cast.

  40. But he rolled quietly back into the water with the hook still set in his nose.

  41. Yes, he did hook them from you," said Dum, making her appearance like a whirlwind.

  42. I am writing entirely on my own hook as your friend and the friend of the other little Virginia, companion of my youth.

  43. This has a little chain at either end, and is attached by a snap or hook to the bit of the other leader.

  44. Let me hook that fish for you, not frighten her away.

  45. When you hook a large salmon, and he makes a great commotion, but all of a sudden lies like a stone, be on your guard; he means mischief.

  46. The man obeyed; and fastening one of the leathern bags he had brought with him to the hook of the iron, Colonel Ashburnham pitched them both into the sea together, just as the boat ran alongside the cutter.

  47. There is a report that a young Lady of 16 has written the new Tragedy, God bless her--I will know her by Hook or by Crook in less than a week.

  48. Horace Smith said to one who asked him if he knew Hook, "Oh yes, Hook and I are very intimate.

  49. After Gans, Peter Uriah Hook was installed as landlord, who named the house "The Eagle," and remained in charge a number of years.

  50. Hook also frequently advertised his business under the firm name of "Hook and Wife.

  51. Hook was an eccentric man, given to redundancy of speech, a merchant, auctioneer, and for two years a member of the lower branch of the State legislature.

  52. Ewing Brownfield, on which he nailed a rough board for a sign, bearing the legend: "Hook and Hankins versus Boyle and Rankin.

  53. He was pock-marked and somewhat overdressed, with a hook nose and a sharp, dry mouth.

  54. I never knew a churchman, if he were personally offended, but he would bring in heaven by hook or crook into his quarrel.

  55. No matter yet, he has my hook within him.

  56. He took his hat off the hook and wiped it carefully with the lower side of his sleeve, round and round.

  57. Afterward he took his smart visored cap off the hook and limped down town, his boots and leggings and uniform very spick and span from Ma Werner's expert brushing and rubbing.

  58. After that she used to see it, by hook or crook whenever possible.

  59. I'll want you to hook me in fifteen minutes," she said.

  60. I want to stand in front of a mirror, looking at myself, polishing my pink nails with a silver thing and having somebody else hook me up!

  61. Her awareness of Lindsley on a diagonal from her so that she could see his profile hook into the music-scented dimness, ran under her skin like a quick shimmer.

  62. She ran in her movements, closing drawers and doors after her to keep down her rising sense of confusion, pinning where fingers could not wait to fit hook to eye.

  63. Fasten a stout hook in a beam overhead, and hang a pulley to it.

  64. This should be hung on a rope from a hook screwed into one of the beams of the ceiling.

  65. They got together their things, and Condy neglected his stick, hanging upon a hook on the wall.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hook" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abstract; anchor; anchorage; angle; annex; apex; appropriate; arc; arch; articulate; attraction; bag; bait; bend; berth; bifurcation; bight; bill; bolt; boost; borrow; bow; branch; breakwater; buckle; buffer; butt; button; cant; captivate; catch; catenary; caustic; charm; chevron; circle; clasp; clip; clout; cobweb; coin; collar; completely; con; connect; convince; cop; corner; crank; crib; crook; crotchet; curl; curve; decoy; deflect; deflection; defraud; delta; dome; dovetail; dragnet; elbow; ellipse; embezzle; endearment; ensnare; entangle; entrap; extort; fasten; fastener; festoon; filch; fishhook; flex; fly; fork; foul; furcate; gain; gimmick; gin; girth; hang; hanger; harpoon; hasp; haymaker; head; headland; hinge; hitch; hook; hump; hunch; hyperbola; inflect; inflection; instrument; inveigle; jam; joint; knee; lacing; land; lariat; lasso; latch; lathe; lift; lime; lock; loop; lure; make; mesh; meshes; miter; mooring; mortise; nail; net; nick; nip; nook; noose; palm; parabola; peg; peninsula; persuade; pilfer; pin; pinch; plug; poach; pocket; point; projection; promontory; purloin; quoin; rabbet; reef; reflect; reflex; rivet; rope; round; roundhouse; rustle; sack; sag; scarf; screw; sell; sew; shoal; sinus; skewer; slip; snag; snake; snap; snare; snarl; snatch; snitch; spear; spinner; spit; springe; spur; staple; steal; stick; stitch; suspender; swag; sway; sweep; swerve; swindle; swing; swipe; tack; take; tangle; thieve; toggle; toil; tongue; tool; tracery; trap; trawl; trip; turn; vault; veer; vertex; vulture; wedge; win; wind; zag; zigzag; zipper