Sentence examples for hook down from inspiring English sources

The phrase "hook down" is not correct and not usable in written English.
There is a phrase "hunker down" which means to huddle down low in order to protect oneself from danger, or to stay at home in order to stay safe. For example, "We hunkered down in the basement during the storm."

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Recently, however, during a particularly vigorous rewrite of his new play, "King Hedley II," which opens on Broadway this month, Wilson knocked the bag and its ceiling hook down, and it now rests mournfully in the corner.

Recently, however, during a particularly vigorous rewrite of his new play, King Hedley II, which opens on Broadway this month, Wilson knocked the bag and its ceiling hook down, and it now rests mournfully in the corner… Wilson's success also triggered what director Marion McClinton… calls one of the more major American theatrical revolutions.

Go from left to right, and while the pencil is still on the paper, hook down and towards the left (about halfway across the top line).

Before that, I just had to hook down.

I quickly retied and sent my hook down again.

People forget to put the hook down, and you can't land on an aircraft carrier if the hook isn't down.

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Fleury flicked a backhander at the net from the slot just as he was being hooked down from behind.

In "Immigrant Voyage," he tells how refugees from D.P. camps after World War II kept their "thumbs hooked down hard under belts / to repress gesticulation".

John Tortorella said he did not know the nature of Christensen's injury.... Gaborik, awarded a first-period penalty shot after being hooked down on a short-handed breakaway by Doug Weight, shot right into DiPietro's pads.

He had been gambling and drinking and eating now and again at the buffet tables the casinos keep heaped with food day and night, but mostly hopping himself up with good old amphetamine, cooling himself down with meprobamate, then hooking down more alcohol, until now, after 60 hours, he was slipping into the symptoms of toxic schizophrenia".

The global PMI index hooked down in August as well.

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