Sentence examples for hooking from inspiring English sources
verb
Present participle of hook
They they all are, hooking their necks down to make their abs stick out – Magic Mike, one of his friends, and one of the werewolves from Twilight who's turned to stripping as a last resort to fund his twin addictions to fake tan and pasties.
(If dating is all about hooking you up with freaks, Tinder just gives you faster access to them).
Although "every woman in Paris wanted to sleep with him", Guggenheim and Duchamp ended up some time in the late 20s not hooking up in the French capital as they "wandered around all night longing to go to bed together".
People don't want you to wander and start playing with another product, so it has a hooking effect.
Calum Woods' free-kick from near halfway was met by Garner's flick-on and Beckford took one touch before hooking beyond Murphy on the half turn.
The producers are confident of hooking some big names.
While nicotine is the addictive substance that keeps smokers hooked, Cancer Research UK said it is the toxic cocktail of chemicals in tobacco smoke that kills half of all long-term smokers.
"So when he and I hooked up, we both looked at each other and said 'now, how on earth did that get out?'.
In the mid-1970s, electrinity in rural China was scarce and unreliable, with less than half of the country hooked up to the grid.
Then I hooked up with Steve Bruce and worked as a goalkeeping coach at Birmingham, before going with him to both Wigan and Sunderland.
