Sentence examples for be hooked on from inspiring English sources

The phrase "be hooked on" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe being addicted to a certain activity or substance. Example sentence: She is hooked on playing video games for hours every day.

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Better, though, surely, to be hooked on Netflix.

New York, in general, seems to be hooked on always having to top itself.

But by the time students move off campus, the theory goes, they will be hooked on cable — and may expect TV Everywhere to fully exist elsewhere too.

The concern of the rule drafters is that slim cigarettes add an allure that attracts young women to smoking and that menthol cigarettes make it easier for young people of both sexes to start, and be hooked on, smoking.

I thought people who claimed to be hooked on electronic games were either very weak-willed, or were making excuses so they didn't have to do dull stuff instead.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (AP — President Nixon signed the drug abuse control bill today and called on Americans to help save "thousands of our young people who would other wise be hooked on drugs" by backing up law enforcers with moral support.

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Some of her books I love, and some I don't, but I'm hooked on this one.

That is, they are hooked on gambling like others are hooked on nicotine, heroin or alcohol.

"I have one, yeah — I'm hooked on it," he said.

My excuse for being hooked on campaign news is that humans are hard-wired to be hooked by narrative.

"Electricity is one energy the developed world is hooked on," General Hydrogen Chairman Geoffrey E.H. Ballard said.

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