Sentence examples for was hooked by from inspiring English sources

Williamson was hooked by that culture.

She said she was hooked by the liveliness.

By the end, I was hooked by the football story and he was hooked by the drama.

Callahan was hooked by Kuba, and on the ensuing man advantage Boyle made it 3-0.

But he was hooked by the discovery that its shell was so thin.

MacFarlane discovered Sinatra in college and was hooked by his stylized masculinity.

Read the first paragraph and you'll be hooked; by the bottom of page two, you'll have a distinct gnawing in the pit of your stomach.

For Edward Albee ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") it was seeing a musical called "Jumbo" — starring Jimmy Durante and a small elephant — at 6, and being hooked "by the total unreality of the experience becoming absolute reality".

This is the choice we face: to recognise that the only humane and effective means of addressing the obesity epidemic is to prevent more people from being hooked, by restricting the pushers – or to continue a programme of fat-shaming, bullying and compulsory treatment, whose only likely outcome is unhappiness.

You'll be hooked by Our Bodies, Our Shelves way before the 20 minute mark.

But by then I was hooked anyway, by the mischief in John Morton's script and the beautifully nuanced performances of, in particular, Hugh Bonneville and Jessica Hynes.