Sentence examples for hooked on watching from inspiring English sources

THERE was a time, before my husband got all of us hooked on watching old episodes of "The Wire," when our block behaved like a typical suburban neighborhood.

Manny is hooked on watching Lena as she outruns guard dogs, secret police and sociopaths while fighting her way out of the former Soviet bloc.

Kids who get hooked on watching movies on a portable handheld device will be settling for a lesser experience, even if they don't yet know it — even if they never know it.

After Cathy Bacich, a lawyer, became hooked on watching Carrie Bradshaw and company swoon over men and manicures in HBO's "Sex and the City," she began shooing her son, then 7, out of the living room by 9 on Sunday nights, before the program began.

That's when she got hooked on "watching science unfold in real time," she says.

We are hooked on watching and disseminating the sensational "American carnage," to borrow a phrase.

Crime dramas with a strong mystery at their heart seem perfect for the Netflix business model of getting viewers hooked on stories they can't stop watching.

Why? "Optimistically, I'd hope it's because marketers are realizing that impressions and pageviews are BS metrics, and it's a lot more valuable to get a smaller group of consumers hooked on a show that they'll watch for a really long time," said Joe Lazauskas, executive editor and head of content strategy at the marketing tech firm Contently.

He has been hooked on professional mixed martial arts (MMA) since he began watching the Ultimate Fighter series on television as a teenager.

He hooked on with the Rockford (Ill).

Smith got hooked on the Olympics watching on television as Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev from the Soviet Union skated to a gold medal at the 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck.