How to Use jump through hoops in a Sentence

jump through hoops

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• Who would kow-tow to this buffoon and jump through hoops for his blessing?
  — J.d. Crowe | [email protected], al, 4 Apr. 2022
• This band of house cats, strays and orphans ride skateboards, jump through hoops, ring bells and more.
  — John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2024
• 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
• Some travelers who have used third-party booking sites have had to jump through hoops to get help when their plans have gone awry.
  — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 11 June 2024
• Customers don’t like to jump through hoops to buy anything, especially now.
  — Serenity Gibbons, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• Insurance may help but many states force patients to jump through hoops before covering it.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2022
• The state of Connecticut should not force parents to jump through hoops held by state bureaucrats.
  — Nicholas Tampio, Hartford Courant, 10 Mar. 2026
• Republican voters were whiter, older, and richer, and thus more likely to vote and to jump through hoops to do so.
  — Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2026
• Ben Stiller had to jump through hoops to make sure Meet the Fockers avoided an R rating.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024
• 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
• 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
• At first, Naomi tries to jump through hoops, carefully tiptoeing around Sara’s fragile feelings.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Essence, 17 June 2021
• 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
• 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
• Providing great patient care is just the first step for US healthcare providers; getting paid for that care takes much longer, requiring their staff to jump through hoops with health insurers.
  — David Prosser, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
• 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
• 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
• That created a crazy disconnect whereby most states in the Union were breaking federal law — and scientists researching the effects of cannabis, good and bad, had to jump through hoops.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 3 May 2024
• 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
• 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
• There are some providers operating on extended schedules already, but most have historically been needs-based, with parents needing to jump through hoops to prove their eligibility.
  — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2026
• Scott-Parker points out that this is a high risk strategy for businesses, where bare minimum disability support is offered and employees have to jump through hoops to participate.
  — Nancy Doyle, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
• 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 situation has created a ripple effect, forcing New York lawmakers to jump through hoops to distance themselves from ICE.
  — Marcia Kramer, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
• 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
• While a refund is better than nothing, Spotify is still making its customers jump through hoops by digging up years-old receipts (and, according to Reddit posts, breaking up the refund across multiple payments).
  — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 30 May 2024
• 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