hook
Example Sentences
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“Roy loved to have things bouncing at you from all different directions. Each part was a hook, with things calling and answering each other.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Carden doesn’t want taxpayers on the hook for billions more in relief payments, so she proposes using the Defense Production Act as a solution.
From Salon • May 15, 2026
If people get hosed by, say, a bear market in stocks, taxpayers will end up on the hook supporting them anyway.
From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026
“The hook here is that we want to go to a world where we have much better therapeutics and things that make all of our lives better,” Chow explained.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
She did not gloat, though Lord Peter was on the hook, and our whole world knew it now.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
Vocabulary lists containing hook
Academic and Literary Vocabulary, Unit 2
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Academic Vocabulary and Literary Terms, Unit 2
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Extended Writing Project, Unit 1
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