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So if you want to make people open the entire post, you need to use the first two lines to write a captivating hook.

If city leaders make a misstep, ratepayers could be on the hook in the future.

“I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.

If the oft-talked-about college “hook-up culture” could be embodied by a place, it would be Shooters.

But Kent will not let us off the familiar horror hook so easily.

They “hook up” in a manner that makes the casual sex of the 1960s seem like an arranged marriage in Oman.

When you met him on Tinder were you initially thinking of this as a hook-up or a relationship?

Only then did I own that by hook or by crook—and mostly by crook, I was forced to suspect—they had purposely given me the slip.

His face was hidden beneath a beard of bristling, bushy red, and he had a sharp hook nose and small, bright eyes.

The sailors tried to catch some with a hook and line, and were fortunate enough to succeed.

The launch was already under way, and young Cargill trying to avoid it better, thrust with his boat-hook at the side of the lock.

It was the merest baby—half-an-ounce, perhaps—and it fell from the hook into the herbage some yards from the stream.