Sentence examples for hooked on the game from inspiring English sources

Noritz has never played tennis, but he has been hooked on the game since the seventies.

Krauthammer became hooked on the game when he was 20 — he is now 60 — and visited a friend in Cambridge, Mass.

He got hooked on the game inadvertently on a visit to his brother-in-law's in Florida in the early 1990's, not knowing he was an expert.

Zhang, 18, is a Chinese-American born in Maryland who became hooked on the game after watching Korean matches with English commentary on YouTube.

From August to February, America is hooked on the game's spectacle and brutality.

Get them engaged with and hooked on the game.

He calls games like Angry Birds or Bejeweled, which ensnare players in addictive loops of frustration and gratification under the pretense that skill is required to win, "abusive" — a common diagnosis among those who get hooked on the games, but a surprising one from a game designer, ostensibly charged with doing the hooking.

I got hooked on the Games.

Like most people, I first got hooked on the games in my living room, watching the 1992 Barcelona Olympics on television every single night.

Big Wall Street firms, having not cashed in on the recent surge in stocks, are hooked on the easier game of trading bonds in a low interest rate environment.

That's why we brought to life a device that can be used by anyone – from a school kid hooked on the newest game figurines to a grandma who wants to surprise her grandchildren with their favorite superhero-shaped cookies!" they write.