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The phrase "able to hook" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone's capability to attract or engage someone or something effectively.
Example: "The marketing campaign was able to hook the audience with its compelling storytelling."
Alternatives: "capable of attracting" or "skilled at engaging".
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"And we were able to hook back up, finally".
But the first question is whether "K Street" will be able to hook viewers.
She added: "There's also the reality of batteries dying and not being able to hook up your device.
For the past few years, people have been able to hook up through the Positive Connection, a website offering dating services for HIV sufferers.
They are able to hook up a cousin with a job, a nephew with a place to live, an in-law with a baby sitter.
Whenever he asked if we would be able to hook a fish, he quickly appended, "and eat it!" The fish don't have anything to worry about.
"They didn't provide much color on it, but in theory, they should be able to hook in someone who'd bought something on Hotwire, and have them book a room at Hotels".
"There is a whole new group of females that Red Dress has been able to hook in that never read traditional romance," Margaret Marbury, executive editor of Red Dress Ink, said.
At night in our shared double Privacy Tarp in Conference Room 11, which our Coördinators had gave us so we would feel more married, I would be like, Honey, look, your attitude only sucks because you can't hook in, once baby comes all will be fine, due to you'll be able to hook in again, right?
I think that answering this will give you a necessary boost in confidence, making it so that you won't feel the need to constantly interrupt the narrative to ask, "Oh, am I boring you?" You'll be able to hook the reader without relying on promises like, "If you buy Volume II, I'll tell you where I hid the money".
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Etiolated seedlings maintained under hypoxia were able to complete hook opening when exposed to light but had defective unfolding and greening of cotyledons, indicating that oxygen is required for the complete response to light.
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