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

Last Updated: 26 Jul 2024