How to Use hook in a Sentence

hook

1 of 2 noun

• She hit a hook into the left rough.
• He threw a right hook to his opponent's body.
• Boom—and then there was no hook.
  — Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 6 May 2026
• That would leave lenders on the hook.
  — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 2 June 2026
• Some of them were curved like a hook.
  — Literary Hub, 9 Feb. 2026
• The phone rang off the hook for weeks.
  — Emilee Coblentz, Outside, 16 Oct. 2025
• They can be hung on a hook on a door.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2026
• As for the hook that sold Kudrow?
  — Jada Yuan, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
• For now, though, state law leaves the city on the hook.
  — Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
• The phone are ringing off the hook.
  — Mark Prussin, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
• Her ear for melody is an A+ and the hooks soar.
  — Ramon Ramirez, Austin American Statesman, 11 Mar. 2026
• Some also is pushed over the hook point.
  — Byron W. Dalrymple, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
• His customers had not let him off the hook.
  — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
• The phone was ringing off the hook.
  — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 11 Apr. 2026
• Churning piles of knees that hook and trip.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
• Not in your opening line or your clever hook.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
• Henry doesn’t want to be let off the hook.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2026
• So many catchy hooks, so many cute costumes.
  — Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
• What does a pirate pay for his hook and his peg?
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
• Where does that instinct for a killer hook come from?
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 1 Apr. 2026
• These hooks are sharp and have never let me down.
  — Derek Horner, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2026
• Nets and hooks kill more than 20 great whites a year.
  — Michael H Gavshon, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
• These hooks will keep your hats in one spot as well as out of the way.
  — Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2024
• Valentino has its hooks in deep in the pop world, too.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 19 Jan. 2026
• Having your own well shouldn’t get you off the hook.
  — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 25 Apr. 2026
• Then there’s the power of her hooks (those could snag a shark).
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
• Even the black wall hooks against the white wall keep to the black-and-white scheme.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Oct. 2025
• Maybe like a 2Pac verse or an Adele hook.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 27 Mar. 2026
• The blast tied the game at 5 and took Strahm off the hook.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2026
• His 3s were off-center, his hook shots and floaters short.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2026

hook

2 of 2 verb

• The dress hooks in the back.
• I hooked the door shut.
• He hooked a large fish.
• My sweater was hooked on a branch.
• He hooked his thumb through a loop of his pants.
• He hooked his arm around my neck.
• The train cars were hooked together.
• The two parts hooked together.
• She hooked her fingers around the doorknob.
• But crack was the drug Sheen said hooked him most.
  — Erin Jensen, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
• Like many first-timers, I was hooked by the name.
  — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2026
• From that moment on, she was hooked.
  — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 2026
• After a few more lessons, he was hooked.
  — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 10 Feb. 2026
• From that moment, he was hooked.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 8 Nov. 2025
• They’ve been hooked ever since.
  — Ben Pickman, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
• All of the fight scenes and high-speed chases will keep you hooked.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
• But maybe the idea is to get people in the door, then hook them.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 23 Sep. 2025
• On his next cast, Billy hooked one.
  — Hank Bradshaw, Outdoor Life, 24 June 2026
• From that moment on, I was hooked.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 15 Dec. 2025
• Jones hooked their second bass of day, which turned out to be their last.
  — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 25 Feb. 2026
• But a few years ago, my younger son saw a football game and was hooked.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
• Something about the game hooked Viskari.
  — Zach Sweet, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
• But a spicy tuna roll later, he was hooked.
  — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Nov. 2025
• As for the movie that first hooked him on cinema?
  — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 9 May 2026
• The thrill and greatness of one player hooked him.
  — Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
• Your about section needs to hook readers in the first line.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
• Those subtleties are still able to hook us some somehow.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 11 Aug. 2025
• The handle means it can be hooked onto bags, too.
  — Alexandra Pereira, Travel + Leisure, 12 Mar. 2026
• When Ryan Lee first played mahjong two years ago, he got hooked.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
• Armour hooks my arm, and the panic abates.
  — Adam Erace, Fortune, 24 May 2026