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hooking

ADJECTIVE
addictive
Synonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK
enslaving


NOUN
prostitution
Synonyms


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

Wearing a blue England helmet without a visor or grille, he was at his happiest pulling, hooking or cutting the quicks.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025

His next two were inner-half fastballs to Vladimir Guerrero Jr., with the Blue Jays star taking the first for a strike before hooking the second inside the left-field foul pole.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2025

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

I told him that the sewage tank at the dock was broken, and how the crew of the Coral Queen had faked hooking up the hose to it.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen




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