How to Use fishhook in a Sentence

fishhook

noun

• If your home has a more nautical theme, a fishhook is the perfect choice.
  — Christopher Murray, Fox News, 22 Feb. 2025
• The fishhook and the wire had gotten stuck to the bush, officials said.
  — Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019
• The question mark at the end of that sentence is a fishhook in Cy’s throat.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021
• With his magical fishhook, the demigod pulled up the islands from the ocean floor.
  — Vanessa Hua, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2018
• Species like the fishhook water flea and the bloody red shrimp — which could be even worse than invasive carp.
  — Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Journal Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2022
• The biggest fear is a fishhook puncturing the inner tube that keeps them afloat far from shore.
  — Matias Delacroix and Juan Pablo ArrÁez, Star Tribune, 15 Aug. 2020
• In addition to knives, this model can be used to sharpen fishhooks, too.
  — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
• Well Trail, where fishhook cactus and other flowers have been known to bloom.
  — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
• While hen droppings are small and spiraled, gobbler scat is bigger, curved like a fishhook and splashed with white.
  — Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 20 Apr. 2020
• The ceramic rod also has a groove that can be used for sharpening fishhooks.
  — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 21 Sep. 2023
• Most of these hunters are setting up full-body decoys in the same fishhook or horseshoe pattern every time.
  — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 2 Jan. 2020
• Scorpius is visible above the southern horizon as a long fishhook shape.
  — Dean Regas, Cincinnati.com, 10 June 2020
• So the fish that guard their nests most aggressively might also be the most likely to bite into a fishhook.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2012
• It had been mangled by fishing lines and hooks, its tongue hanging out, slashed by a large fishhook that had gone through it from underneath.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
• In April, hundreds of viewers watched the two-week-old eaglet swallow a fishhook that one of its parents had fed it.
  — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 25 June 2026
• The photo was later altered to depict him appearing to chase after a dollar bill pierced by a fishhook.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 5 Sep. 2022
• Meanwhile, the orangutans tested were able to complete the fishhook easily.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 12 Nov. 2018
• The pup had likely collided with a cholla, and its spines — barbed like fishhooks — were embedded across his face, legs, stomach and paws.
  — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 10 June 2026
• Then pass the other rope through the hook shape from behind, wrap it around the entire fishhook once and then tuck the smaller line between itself and the other rope.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2019
• Nonetheless, the two set out on a journey to find Maui’s fishhook and return the heart to Te Fiti.
  — Gregory Nussen, Deadline, 8 July 2026
• Excavations also recovered a bone fishhook from roughly the same period, and grinding stones used to process nuts or seeds.
  — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 20 Dec. 2021
• In the southern sky, just above the treetops will be a fishhook shape of stars centered on Antares (Scorpius the Scorpion).
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 23 June 2020
• The bite left Manser unable to walk for months and, at one point, reduced him to using a fishhook in an attempt to remove festering infection from his leg.
  — Erik Spanberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2018
• Mundane objects — weights and scales, fishhooks, playing dice, lamps and cookware — bring the verses of the New Testament to life.
  — Fox News, 7 July 2018
• Authorities are warning hikers about dog treats stuffed with fishhooks scattered along a section of the Appalachian Trail.
  — Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 7 May 2024
• And in an actual instant, animals slated to live a century or more can be killed—after their shells are crushed by cars, their mouths are snagged by fishhooks or their ponds are drained by developers.
  — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2023
• There were some scary moments at the nest earlier in the spring when viewers watched one of the eaglets, then just named USS 11, swallow a fishhook.
  — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 22 June 2026
• The album’s cover — a nude infant swimming in a pool chasing after a dollar attached to a fishhook — was long interpreted as an edgy critique of greed and capitalism.
  — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 21 Dec. 2023
• And wrap it in a gorgeous (if somewhat twisted) album cover depicting a completely adorable baby underwater, grasping at a dollar bill on a fishhook?
  — Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• In a joint effort, medical staff and firefighters removed the fishhook and treated the wound, the Bremen firefighter department said in a statement.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2026