Example sentences for: hooked

How can you use “hooked” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • You had to take it back to Cartier to get the lipstick refilled, and you held onto it with a little ring or chain that hooked over two fingers.

  • And from that point I had the president hooked.

  • It's also voracious: A typical gambler addicted to blackjack takes about 20 years from placing the first bet to bottoming out; a gambler hooked on video poker needs less than three years.

  • After Ann left William (whose once-promising career as a salesman had devolved into an impecunious one as a roving violinist), she hooked up with a wealthy Jewish tire tycoon named Joel Jacobs.

  • Having been hooked by this line--and by a follow-up report that Miami customers prefer ivory-colored undergarments to black ones by 10:1--TP was deeply disappointed to discover that the article was really about a Virginia-based company called Microstrategy, whose products help companies sort through their databases.


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