How to Use hooky in a Sentence

hooky

noun

• Trinkets then jumps back in the timeline to reveal the events that brought the trio to their morning of hooky.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 26 Aug. 2020
• Let There Be Witchery has all the right hooky, Venom-laden sleaze.
  — Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 15 Mar. 2022
• The brat who punched my brother wasn’t the only kid playing hooky that day.
  — al, 21 Dec. 2022
• After Legg fudged the time card of a friend playing hooky, the friend was transferred and Byrnes brought in to fill his spot.
  — Justin Nobel, Longreads, 5 Sep. 2017
• Oh, if ever there was a day to play hooky from work, just look outside.
  — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 11 Mar. 2018
• Pritchard played hooky from high school with a friend to try to find tickets to Game 3 at Maple Leaf Gardens.
  — Laine Higgins, WSJ, 17 May 2021
• No ordinary hooky-playing this, the kids planned to clean up Wind and Sea beach.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2022
• Lots of office workers tend to play a little hooky when the big boss is away in August.
  — Emily Jane Fox, vanityfair.com, 7 Aug. 2017
• Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, so there's no need to play hooky!
  — Tierney McAfee, Country Living, 14 July 2020
• The mischievous Ferris decides to play hooky and ropes in his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron for some fun.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2023
• Time to play a little work-hooky, sidle up to a bar somewhere and take part in an all-too rare joy around here.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 30 Sep. 2020
• That hooky seems to have been forgiven by his boss, who sometimes trains with him and watched the match from the players’ box on court.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2023
• For a few weeks, Trump has made noises about playing hooky on debate day.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 4 May 2023
• Her assailants, a group of teenage girls playing hooky from school, had not broken into her home.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2020
• Mike Williams, playing hooky lately, showed up for class with three quick catches and then the 53-yarder to put his side up after blowing the lead.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2021
• But Halloween is a Monday this year — don't get any ideas about playing hooky on Tuesday.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 11 May 2022
• But fans hoping to ditch work to take in Cleveland’s home opener the following week might have just lost their reason to play hooky.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 11 Mar. 2022
• Americans love few things more than a sporting circus or an excuse to slink out of the office and play hooky from work en masse.
  — Roger Bennett, GQ, 12 June 2018
• In the early 1900s, long before Ferris played hooky in his, a prim sweater vest was the sort of thing a tony aristocrat would have worn to keep warm while fox hunting.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2020
• The songs that soundtracked our year were genre-blurring, empowering, hooky and game-changers in their own way.
  — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 27 Dec. 2022
• Yesterday 2 Dems got caught using Pelosi's proxy voting scheme to play hooky.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 26 Feb. 2021
• But instead of going to work and serving as a voice of his constituents, Charlie decided to play hooky.
  — Susan Ferrechio, Washington Examiner, 28 May 2020
• Within a few sessions of playing hooky from his ski jumping and cross country lessons, the 6-year-old had taught himself to do a backflip.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Feb. 2022
• This is a joining of forces at a state-of-the-art facility for two doctors who used to play hooky from anatomy lab to play basketball.
  — Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 20 July 2017
• Baby’s hooky, introspective and deeply Southern hip-hop has become a defining sound of the year in lockdown.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2020
• And few Solitude Foods are better than a bucket of popcorn to oneself in the back of a movie theater on a rainy weekday afternoon of playing hooky.
  — Mari Andrew, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2022
• Note: This salad’s served at lunch only, but lunch segues seamlessly into happy hour, so why not play hooky?
  — Bethany Jean Clement, The Seattle Times, 29 June 2017
• The group of staffers, mostly women, fills seats around Wolfe Herd; the theater, with its menu of food and cocktails, provides a giddy sense of playing hooky rather than one of required reading.
  — Daphne Beal, Marie Claire, 20 Sep. 2018
• High-school hooky players flitted about looking for the next Instagram moment.
  — Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Nov. 2021
• The mountains are a worthy place to play hooky from the gym during ski season, when shredding the slopes provides a rigorous cardio and strength-building workout.
  — Brittany Anas, The Denver Post, 10 June 2017

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024