How to Use hooked in a Sentence
hooked
adjective- Her friends talked her into playing golf, and now she's hooked.
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The next year, was the one-point loss to Katy off a hooked field goal.
— Adam Coleman, Houston Chronicle, 2 Oct. 2019 -
At the end of the finger is a hooked nail that snags the grub and drags it out.
— Wired, 21 Oct. 2019 -
The film is a complete edge-of-the-seat thriller that will keep you hooked.
— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Apr. 2022 -
In the first video, Scott walks toward a group of young men pulling a hooked shark to shore.
— Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 4 June 2023 -
Don’t cast from a brushy or tree-lined spot and try to lead a hooked fish through the cover.
— Bill May, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 1 May 2021 -
The male was deeply-colored and had a slightly-hooked jaw.
— Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2018 -
The first episode is gonna get people hooked — there's a lot that happens.
— Ellen Collis, Seventeen, 14 Nov. 2011 -
Each will keep you hooked and guessing until the very end.
— Sheena Scott, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021 -
If a fish is deeply hooked, cut the line instead of trying to remove the hook.
— Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2022 -
Woods gets a huge break when his hooked approach hits a tree and bounces back toward the edge of the green.
— Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2020 -
Newsome may have grown up a Cavs fan, but that’s what’s kept him hooked.
— Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 17 Feb. 2022 -
One suggested the jaw of the Chinook should be more hooked.
— Sarah Blustain, ProPublica, 9 June 2022 -
The Sonics were in the middle of their surge to the 1996 Finals, and Cho became hooked on hoops.
— Jake Fischer, SI.com, 29 June 2017 -
For one thing, TikTok has figured out the best way to keep us hooked.
— John Brandon, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022 -
The apps all shift and change constantly to suit our own taste, which keeps us hooked.
— John Brandon, Forbes, 22 May 2022 -
The shot that defined his victory was a hooked sand wedge from deep in the woods.
— Star Tribune, 12 Nov. 2020 -
So each show has that twisty-turny DNA that will keep you hooked week after week.
— Christopher Ros, Glamour, 18 Aug. 2021 -
This happens every time I get hooked on this train of thought.
— Seija Rankin, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2021 -
But investors should be wary of getting too hooked on this yarn.
— Jacky Wong, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017 -
Despite the lack of gameplay, Harold Halibut kept me hooked.
— PCMAG, 14 June 2024 -
In addition, the hooked tips prevent the food from falling off or sticking to the grates.
— Noma Nazish, Forbes, 17 June 2022 -
But the patient couldn’t stay hooked up to the lung machine forever.
— oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2019 -
The type of prickles varies: large or small, hooked or straight, fine like fur or razor-sharp and vicious.
— Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022 -
All of which is just long enough to keep people hooked without boring them.
— Lisa Eadicicco, Time, 8 Mar. 2018 -
All eight episodes drop at once, so prepare to get hooked and clear your schedule for a solid binge.
— Ew Staff, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2021 -
The sound of one phone not ringing: Cell phones were turned off and remained hooked to belts or stowed in knapsacks for most of the weekend.
— Judy Bryan, WIRED, 27 Sep. 1999 -
This area, where the muscles from the back of the neck attach to the base of the skull, is smooth and rounded in females but hooked and protruding in males.
— Anna Kuchment, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2011 -
The Huskies unveiled an old school look uniform with the hooked C and Connecticut written on the chest.
— Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2023 -
Big, 5-pound class fish strike sluggishly at times and come unbuttoned right at the bank while those dinky 12-inchers remain solidly hooked.
— Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2024
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