get hooked

Example Sentences

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“You can’t see everything. There’s so much.... You start meeting the people, you get hooked on the people.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Investors get hooked on short-term results and executives and boards spend more time focusing on the next earnings call than on the key strategic decisions that will drive success for the next decade.

From Barron's • Nov. 26, 2025

They can get hooked on a host, the informational aspect of news becoming secondary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

"I did get hooked on apples for a while," he said.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2025

He was starting to get hooked on the idea.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon