Sentence examples for becoming hooked from inspiring English sources

Alexander's film shows hooliganism is an addiction and demonstrates the consequences of becoming hooked on that addiction.

He took up the harmonica as a hobby before becoming hooked on jazz music during the second world war.

Especially vulnerable to becoming hooked on Internet sex, he wrote, are "those users whose sexuality may have been suppressed and limited all their lives [who] suddenly find an infinite supply of sexual opportunities" on the Internet.

The company was co-founded by Jason Powell, a graphic designer of 25 years, who originally started The Longbow Shop selling arrows he had made on eBay after becoming hooked on archery.

California officials report that the Proposition 10 tax increase and higher prices charged by tobacco manufacturers have caused cigarette sales to fall by 30percentt, a drop that, if sustained, can substantially reduce the number of young people becoming hooked on tobacco.

"We have a catastrophe now in Utah with opiate overdoses," said Dan Snarr, a member of the high priest group leadership within the LDS church whose son, Denver, died of a prescription drug overdose at the age of 25 after becoming hooked on painkillers following a rugby injury.

Yet becoming dangerously hooked didn't seem to be much of a risk.

@ChrisGuillebeau I got hooked on travel by becoming a frequent flier mile junkie.

The gills are ascending and somewhat hooked or toothed, narrow at first but becoming rather broad (2.5 mm and becoming 3 4 mm).

But in these "cloud computing" days of accessing software remotely over Internet-hooked data centers, Cisco and Oracle are becoming direct competitors.

For Edward Albee ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") it was seeing a musical called "Jumbo" — starring Jimmy Durante and a small elephant — at 6, and being hooked "by the total unreality of the experience becoming absolute reality".