hook
Example Sentences
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In a new era of heightened trade barriers, he added, “If all these economies and markets are less hooked together than they used to be, then there are greater benefits in diversification.”
And in the kitchen, as in life or in a Spoon song, the underdog — quiet, overlooked, scrappy — often delivers the hook that sticks.
From Salon
That is a reflection, say experts, of nuclear’s high costs, public skepticism and missed promises on new technologies such as small, factory-made reactors that can be hooked up to the grid quickly.
"And I was hooked on what they were showing me, so I decided I was going to get a metal detector."
From BBC
While Korean pop has been topping the U.S. album chart since 2018, it had never hooked Pine.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.