Sentence examples for a barbed fishhook from inspiring English sources

Her longing for Gabe is intensely physical, a barbed fishhook tugging.

It had a lurid cover illustration showing a barbed fishhook buried in a gleaming apple.

Objectives: To review the literature involving removal of sharp foreign bodies from the hypopharynx and to present a case of a triple-barbed fishhook removed from the hypopharynx with suspension microlaryngoscopy.

Results: Review of the literature revealed no prior description of either foreign body removal using microlaryngoscopy or report of the removal of a triple-barbed fishhook from humans.

Conclusion: Removal of sharp foreign bodies from the aerodigestive tract always presents a technical challenge, and this case of a hypopharyngeal triple-barbed fishhook introduces new operative techniques.

Bone was a particularly useful material, for its toughness made feasible barbed fishhooks, eyed needles, and small leatherworking awls.

Cloudily, he realized that he was snagged by two triple-barbed fishhooks — one in his left sleeve, and one in his buttock — and that his legs were trussed by their line.

That's a barbed, but generous judgment.

We climbed over a barbed wire fence.

Put a barbed wire fence around it?

Even casual comments take on a barbed ability to wound.