Sentence examples for first hooked from inspiring English sources
Stratton Oakmont practised a technique called "pump and dump": investors were first hooked with the promise of shares in stable companies and then persuaded to invest in Stratton's IPOs.
Aaron Marshall was first hooked as a 7-year-old in East Williamsburg watching Italian, Irish and other white pigeon breeders on their roofs and beguiled by the competition, with men boasting, "I caught five on you and he caught five from me".
Perhaps there was a time when a close and angry election like this one could be expected to produce some easy joy and a rough, semi-polite unanimity when it was over, and a little space when the candidates and the pollsters and the focus groups and the voters went home and thought about what it was that first hooked them on such passion, but it does not come quickly to mind.
A killer performance of Bo Diddley's "It's Alright" brings home the fact that, contrary to what many of us assumed at the time, most of the tracks that first hooked us on the Stones were penned not by Jagger and Richards but by Slim Harpo, Jimmy Reed, Rufus Thomas and other bluesmasters.
These days, Marron's primary focus is completing the first season of "Whatever this is.," which recently surpassed its Kickstarter goal by garnering over $171,000 in funding from enthusiastic viewers (the show's near-rabid community of fans, many of whom were first hooked on Goldman's work in "The Outs," made their presence known at a sold-out July 30 premiere party in Brooklyn, N.Y.).
They first hooked up in London 20 years ago.
Like you, I first got hooked on journalism in high school.
Hundhausen, like many other A.B.A. fans, first became hooked watching the Denver Nuggets, then an A.B.A. team, as a child.
Most of those who overdose on heroin or a synthetic opiate, such as fentanyl, first become hooked on legal pills.
That was the basic scenario that I first got hooked on, and then characters got ascribed to it".
That said, I think I first got hooked on museums the way many kids do, through the thrills and chills of Egyptian art.
