Sentence examples for hooked down from inspiring English sources

'hooked down' is not a correct or usable phrase in written English.
It could be used in spoken English to describe someone feeling dejected or dropping their head in a defeated manner. Example: When she found out she didn't get the job, she hooked down and felt defeated.

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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.

The global PMI index hooked down in August as well.

Ed Hyman, one of my favorite economists, who runs ISI, notes several company surveys of current business hooked down such as truckers, airlines and home builders.

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Torre, who started out as a catcher and converted to third, said the biggest adjustment for him was reading the way the ball hooks down the line.

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.

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".

Before that, I just had to hook down.

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).

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