Sentence examples for like a hooked from inspiring English sources

Also, to be fair, my tongue had not thrashed like a hooked fish.

To the remaining twenty-five per cent, the supertasters, it tastes so terrible that one unfortunate consumer said his tongue thrashed around his mouth like a hooked fish convulsing on the deck of a boat.

Some, like a cozy nineteenth-century scene of a country house and a steepled church, lean toward the folksy-craftsy, while others, like a hooked rug in which flat planes of color describe a solitary tree outlined against a serene sky, wouldn't be out of place in a survey of modernist textiles.

We pass a surfcaster, who stares at Melnyk, jaws agape like a hooked striper.

When she wakes up in Hubbell's Volvo station wagon en route to her future home, her mouth is like that of a hooked fish, sad and gasping.

"Well, it's as fascinating as anything in cyberspace … the place we call — reality!" They left the stage, and circus-style organ music played; Posehn, an unwieldy six feet seven, entered from stage left, wearing a hooked, carrot-like false nose and scooting in circles on a tiny red tricycle, while whooping.

The guard fits over the left hand and ends in a hooked, knife-like blade that was probably intended to parry the net and trident or to snag and pull away the net.

When the baby was born, he didn't really look like me, but he did have a bit of a hooked nose like mine.

Think of a hooked beginning, like one of your characters flirting with another person they like, or if it is paranormal, it could start at a magical place.

This fish wasn't beelining down-current like a freshly hooked bass.

Mr. Miller snatches at that pretty foot like a ravenous fish going after a hooked worm.