How to Use jump through hoops in a Sentence

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• Who would kow-tow to this buffoon and jump through hoops for his blessing?
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al, 4 Apr. 2022
• Getting my printer/scanner to work is like trying to train a starfish to jump through hoops.
  — Whitson Gordon, Wired, 13 Mar. 2021
• FanDuel doesn’t want new customers to jump through hoops or punch in lengthy passwords.
  — Xl Media, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2022
• Since the 1970s, dogs have been trained to nimbly jump through hoops, scale inclines, and weave between poles in order to demonstrate agility.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 June 2023
• Customers don’t like to jump through hoops to buy anything, especially now.
  — Serenity Gibbons, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• Cooper warned the legislation would make women jump through hoops to receive care and could lead to clinics closing.
  — Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 16 May 2023
• Cooper warned the legislation would make women jump through hoops to receive care and could lead to clinics closing.
  — Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 16 May 2023
• Insurance may help but many states force patients to jump through hoops before covering it.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2022
• Dylan’s Place can accept same-day walk-ins and doesn’t require potential patients to jump through hoops to get into treatment, Savage said.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Feb. 2023
• Those trying to get money to relatives and friends in Cuba must jump through hoops and work through third parties, and even then are often unsuccessful.
  — Tracy Wilkinson Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2021
• At first, Naomi tries to jump through hoops, carefully tiptoeing around Sara’s fragile feelings.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Essence, 17 June 2021
• Until recently, Android users, and only Android users, have been made to jump through hoops in order to delete a photo while viewing it from inside a Google photos album.
  — Paul Monckton, Forbes, 22 May 2022
• With no one to answer to, being a founder and my own boss was the ultimate expression of my creative freedom and gave me the opportunity to make my way in fashion without having to jump through hoops.
  — Georgia Murray, refinery29.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• Steady work on that eight-season zombie drama gave Domingo the stability to quit dropping everything to fly across the country and jump through hoops out of desperation for screen tests that never paid off.
  — Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• Trying to create and maintain secure passwords can be overwhelming, and there is little that is more frustrating than forgetting a password and being forced to jump through hoops to reset it.
  — Tony Bradley, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
• Surviving businesses have been forced by politicians and bureaucrats to jump through hoops — e.g., by creating restaurants out of sidewalks and streets, and generally dealing with upended business models — just to stay afloat.
  — Chip Roy, National Review, 16 Mar. 2021
• Ed-tech, tutoring and consulting companies are eager to onboard experienced teachers, offering higher salaries and promises of career growth without forcing them to jump through hoops.
  — Doug Roberts, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• The president’s increasing demands that all Republicans—but especially Perdue and Loeffler—jump through hoops on his behalf likely hurt both candidates with voters who might have split their tickets.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2021
• Records obtained from 16 districts in 11 different states show just how broadly schools block content, forcing students to jump through hoops to complete assignments and keeping them from resources that could support their health and safety.
  — Tara García Mathewson, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024