Sentence examples for were hooked with from inspiring English sources

The phrase "were hooked with" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to convey being engaged or captivated by something, but the preposition "with" is not typically used in this context. Example: "They were hooked on the new series and couldn't stop watching."

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We used them just for decoration for ages, but eventually stuck a big piece of lamb onto the spit of one of those machines and were hooked: With just minimal seasoning and virtually no work, out came a tender, moist, irresistible dinner.

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The United and England captain was hooked with 20 minutes to go by a manager finally tiring of his failure to get behind defences.

Tidal claims to have 4.2 million subscribers, but there are questions as to how many of them will stay the distance as they were hooked in with a hat trick of exclusives this year from Beyoncé, Kanye West and Rihanna, plus holding some of Prince's back catalogue.

Other children were hooked to IV drips with medicines.

Thirty-seven of the manufactured tools were hooked stick tools, and five were non-hooked stick tools.

And then they were hooked-up with WeChat Wallet.

I was hooked – and with 10 albums, 25 UK Top 40 singles, an Ivor Novello and countless other gongs now under her belt, I can't have been the only one.

"And then I was hooked!" she says with a laugh.

Young ones say they will quit soon (most of them won't); older ones, resigned to being hooked, come up with a variety of rationales.

It gave me confidence I had never experienced in my life, and I was hooked!" It's with this kind of fearlessness that Nicol continues to live her life, refusing to be put in a box or play by anyone else's rubrics.

Helen was hooked – and she, along with her 21-year-old daughter, Laura, accepted an invitation to take part in a day's filming.

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