Sentence examples for series of hoops from inspiring English sources

The skin is wrapped over a series of hoops suspended from the spine.

He'd have to go through a series of hoops to get out on the field.

Other types include small basketlike or cagelike traps made of wood, netting, wire, or plastic pots and fyke nets (long bag-shaped nets kept open by a series of hoops).

Because of his previous diagnoses, he was already in the social services system, which in our state consisted of a labyrinthine series of hoops and hurdles and bureaucratic insanity that not even the most educated and competent can easily navigate.

Yet we persist in discouraging the best and the brightest from entering the classroom by requiring them to jump through a series of hoops in schools of education that can at best produce only average practitioners.

Even though customers had made up their minds, they still caused all the other salespeople to jump through a series of hoops for nothing, wasting their valuable time, resources, and mental and emotional energy.

"It's a series of legal hoops," she explains.

Are you capable of heroic self-sacrifice or is life just a series of achievement hoops?

Farthingale, underskirt expanded by a series of circular hoops that increase in diameter from the waist down to the hem and are sewn into the underskirt to make it rigid.

This tunnel, which is constructed of a series of metal hoops bolted to a wooden frame, moves back and forth along wooden skids, so that different sections of ground are protected or exposed, according to the seasons.

The shadow education secretary, Stephen Twigg, last month supported a similar move, saying that all schools should be able to offer longer school terms and extra classes without having to "jump through a series of bureaucratic hoops".