hoop

Example Sentences

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Crystal Nerone has made repeated trips to the one-stop center to understand in advance every hoop they’ll have to jump through.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Brothers Joseph and Lyman Bloomingdale got their start in 1872 selling hoop skirts, corsets and other women’s fashions on New York’s Lower East Side.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

At least as many people will probably remember her ability to throw a basketball through a hoop while facing in the opposite direction which she did while visiting a cross-community scheme on Wednesday.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026

Indiana leapt through every hoop, every ranking, every road game, every skeptical Yeah but have they done this.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

More goodbyes, Dicey thought to herself, coiling up the last rope into a dark brown hoop, piling loop upon loop.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt