10 sentences with 'hook'
Example sentences and phrases with the word hook and other words derived from it.
• « The man who answered the newspaper ad for an experienced boat captain had a wooden leg, a hook and an eye patch. »
• « -And how did you lose that eye? // -Now you'll see. There was a terrible storm off Turtle Island. The rigging was all out of order, and when I looked up, a seagull... // -And that left you without an eye? // -No. It's just that I was getting my first hook that day! »
• « I want to believe that one day, in this same spot, she will throw a hook and remember the night when we dyed a little piece of skin to fish and talked about love. »
• « He casts the hook without haste, and the warm rays of the sun leap between the ripples of the water and his rimless glasses. »
• « -I think a fish has already taken your hook," my father whispers. Tighten the line, but don't give it the tug. Let it take the float to the bottom. That's it! You've got it! - I pull a small perch out of the lake. »
• « -First we bait the hook. -I take out a worm and put it on. Then we cast it and wait for the fish. Look, hold the rod. -She does it reluctantly. A couple of minutes go by and the float starts to dance - You've caught one! »
• « Close-up detail of the hook of a "Bachipalma albopilosa", whose sting can cause acute pulmonary oedema as well as airway obstruction, leading to a slow and horrible death, if no corresponding serum is administered. »