Sentence examples for a fishing hook from inspiring English sources

Eventually, they coaxed an alligator out with a fishing hook.

Steal a fishing hook and they hang you," read one oft-forwarded proverb.

The animals were all tagged and accounted for on a daily basis and any visible injuries -- like one that would be sustained by a fishing hook -- would have been noticed by the site's managers.

Anybody who knows a hook slide from a fishing hook knows there is more to this story.

The phrase has nothing to do with taunting someone or sticking a slimy worm to a fishing hook.

For example, his outfit bears a distinctive blue theme, and the symbol of Tidus' Blitzball team on his clothing is designed after a fishing hook.

Zamperini made the pin of his lieutenant's insignia into a fish hook, with little success.

I collect belt buckles and someone gave me one shaped like a fish hook.

Even the trip on which I stepped on a fish hook (after being told repeatedly not to walk around barefoot) did not dampen my enthusiasm.

In his later years, he was bent as a fish hook, and looked so old that strangers refused to believe he was only in his 90s.

Atwood's The Circle Game (1966), Power Politics (1971), and Two-Headed Poems (1978) are laconic, ironic commentaries on contemporary mores and sexual politics: "you fit into me / like a hook into an eye / a fish hook / an open eye".