hooking

Example Sentences

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Around the tents, workers are busy renovating the unsanitary restrooms, installing showers and connecting them to the water supply, and hooking up electricity.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

The score came seven seconds after Finland’s Susanna Tapani was sent off for hooking.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2026

Her wife was her No. 1, and they would not be dating or hooking up with dates together.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2025

Later came Jack and Ozzy’s father and son fishing trip, highlighted by dad hooking a bird.

From Salon • Jul. 24, 2025

She’d say the police would do much better handing out vines of the white trumpet flowers to the accused than hooking them up to a lie detector.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson