Sentence examples for spend to hook from inspiring English sources

At stake are the huge sums that retailers spend to hook customers and close sales.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to spend $1.3 million to hook up more than 300 elevators and escalators in the subways to a computerized monitoring system that would allow it to respond more quickly to breakdowns.

The company also expects to spend $1 billion to hook customers up to the service, though analysts said that cost could rise if the service proves as popular as AT&T expects.

Apple, which had spent months preparing to hook Facebook into iOS, its mobile operating system, swiftly reworked it for Twitter.

US West rushed to offer the service in Phoenix in 1998, spending $3,000-plus to hook up each customer.

It was not as easy as it sounded: I spent days online trying to hook up with consultants, who were busy helping other brides.

(Botswana, 40-year-old woman) Spending time at the tavern tempted me to hook up with drunken girls … I would have sex with these girls, sometimes unsafe sex.

(The company spends an extra $650 in equipment and labor to hook up each house ordering the service).

When we were teens we'd ask someone to hook up after school and it simply meant that we wanted to spend time together.

If you want to hook up, hook up, they said.

(Dealers like to hook them young).