Sentence examples for sort of hook from inspiring English sources

Losing the bats, though it left them "disconsolate," he said, "gave us a sort of hook and a story and something that would hopefully keep people with us".

I have done the police bravery awards, my late mother was in the force, albeit not in the Met, so I have a sort of hook into the police.

Maybe the family's next cellphone, he mused, should have some sort of hook as an accessory so it, like everything else in the home, could be suspended above the floor.

Looking back, the person behind the fake BP Twitter account wrote in an e-mail that anonymity is a critical part of this kind of political speech: "I feel like anonymous, pointed criticism with some sort of hook is more damaging just because they don't have anyone to challenge directly.

An angler has a humble profession, familiar to everyone (Sophist 218e): an angler hunts water creatures using a special sort of hook.

Most in-ears either just rest in your ear canal or have a sort of hook that wraps around your ear, but not the C5s.

A drinking game opens "The Pill," a sort of hook-up horror story by J. C. Khoury that never really gets any more sophisticated than that.

Put some sort of hooks on the back of the door for your guest to hand their clothes, robe, and/or towel on, as well as at least a small mirror for them to get presentable before emerging from their room.

It's Gone Girl before "Gone Girl," the sort of narrative hook that can suck a reader into a novel.

No less than 60% of the places in elite universities are given to candidates who have some sort of extra "hook", from rich or alumni parents to "sporting prowess".

But if you require some sort of timely hook to get to Arizona, fine: he now has an outpost in Tucson, too.