Sentence examples for tiny hook from inspiring English sources

Fly-tying, which is the art of making the fuzzy, furry little things that go on your hook to lure the fish, consists of meticulously wrapping minuscule pieces of cloth, thread and feathers around a tiny hook and then giving the result names like "Woolly Bugger" and "Bead Head Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear".

Most of these species, which include fishing, jumping, flower, and wolf spiders (above), derive from a single branch where males all have a tiny hook on each of the short front legs used in mating.

If these holes are very small, bend a fine wire with a tiny hook on one end.

The venom sac is at the end of the sting, the sting its self has a very tiny hook which is ideal to scrape out sting.

You can do this by inserting a piece of florist wire up through the center of the bloom, creating a tiny hook at the end, then pulling it down a bit to hide the hook inside the petals.

One of those techniques is French gesso re-cutting, in which he uses tiny hook-shaped metal scrapers to carve details into as many as 30 coats of gesso, a thin plaster-like substance, which is built up coat by coat on the object to be gilded, and into which leaves and other ornaments can be carved.

Modern feathers consist of thousands of fibres held together by tiny hooks.

In the 1940s Swiss engineer George de Mestral saw tiny hooks on the burrs clinging to his hunting jacket and invented the hook-and-loop fastener system known as Velcro.

Eventually de Mestral learned to mold nylon into a fabric studded with tiny hooks or loops that acted like artificial burs.

"If someone had suggested to me that impaling insects with little tiny hooks would be a valid form of pest control, I wouldn't have given it credence," she said in an interview.

After the proleg has been placed on the substrate, the fluids are retracted into the body and the elasticity of the cuticle causes the tiny hooks to retract, thus gripping the substrate.