Sentence examples for attempt to hook from inspiring English sources

Ergo, the Freak Brothers are an attempt to hook our children on drugs.

The keeper skittered back in an attempt to hook it off the line, but too late!

This classic political attempt to hook the postal service flotation scandal far into the undergrowth failed, of course.

Klose runs after Stankovic on the halfway line and misses a perfectly honest attempt to hook his leg round the ball.

Later that night I was moved to the maternity ward, where a nurse made an unsuccessful attempt to hook me up to a fetal-heart-rate monitor.

Laurent Koscielny had the position on Antoine Griezmann but he mucked up his attempt to hook the ball away in darkly comic fashion.

After lunch, John Dyson (century-maker in the first innings) gloved Willis to Taylor, attempting to hook.

United, for instance, was blocked from buying US Airways 14 months ago, and foreign-ownership rules stymied BA's attempts to hook up with KLM of the Netherlands.

But Dhoni, dropped by Anderson on 33, became Finn's fourth victim in the 37th over when he gloved the fast bowler behind attempting to hook.

A bit of a wild scramble in the area, and Mikel attempts to hook a ball across Romero from the left-hand post and into the top right.

"It will take away our sense of selves, of living in a solar community," said Mrs. Putney, who has staved off attempts to hook up the island for 15 years.