| No, I cannot lay down with a hanger hooked on a zipper trying to mash my fleshy body into a dress too small for me. |
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| The double-crested cormorant is a black bird with a long neck, long bill, hooked on the end, and long tail. |
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| I recently got hooked on white short sleeve undershirts and wear them under polos or button down shirts every day. |
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| Henthorn, a Chicagoan, got hooked on the trapeze after seeing a circus show. |
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| And that afternoon my ports were packed, and I hooked on the boat, and our daughter arrived, and away we went. |
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| And the storylines are clever enough that even viewers who aren't pre-teen girls can get hooked on the show. |
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| She's among the growing group of female gamers that are getting hooked on computer games. |
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| I joined that league partway through the season, and I was hooked on the tenpin game. |
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| Rival gangs roaming the streets, engaged in a lucrative turf war over who supplies a population hooked on an expensive habit. |
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| It is this participatory encouragement by parents that gets the Australian child hooked on sport. |
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| This long weekend will see a nation boss-eyed with self-indulgent excitement, hooked on the dangerous drug of royal nostalgia. |
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| Statistics show that almost all smokers were hooked on tobacco as adolescents. |
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| Son is hoping to turbocharge revenues by getting his broadband subscribers hooked on services such as games that bring in extra cash. |
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| Ennui would set in, as we sophisticated consumers became modern-day lotus-eaters, hooked on channel surfing and material comforts. |
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| As with any addictive substance, there is a reason we get hooked on caffeine in the first place. |
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| He first got hooked on fish as a boy wading the streams of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. |
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| Besides, while individual investors are turned off, Europe's governments, whatever their political coloration, are totally hooked on the markets. |
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| When she first got hooked on ciggies there were no health warnings on the packets. |
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| Following a visit to the doctor's, she is on her way to dropping 30 pounds and becoming hooked on the uppers and downers that comprise her diet. |
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| They were both hooked on the show even though Meredith and Brad liked to make fun of them for it. |
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| I must admit I am still hooked on the series, the developing characters and their ongoing, individual stories. |
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| He describes himself as addicted to optimism, and his ministry is about getting everyone else hooked on it too. |
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| If you know someone who might need help with weight control, suggest a free consultation to get him or her hooked on an exercise plan. |
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| Bender gets hooked on electricity, and Fry and the gang worry that he's on a downward spiral toward self-destruction. |
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| I don't blame the users but the drug pushers who are so eager to get people hooked on heroin. |
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| Ever since the Turks abandoned a large supply of coffee beans in 1683, the Viennese have been hooked on java. |
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| Renee got hooked on the sport after trying archery during a camping holiday to France with her husband, Ian. |
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| I fear the event might be misunderstood and purposely hooked on by designers and enemies. |
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| But the amazing mountain scenery and death-defying speed of the downhillers kept viewers hooked on a wet and cold Sunday afternoon. |
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| Once you get hooked on composting, you'll even start going after the local barber for hair, and even saving dryer lint! |
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| If local meat eaters all got hooked on home-grown rabbit, imagine the effect on our food import bill. |
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| She first picked up a netball at Poppleton Road Junior School in 1955 and has been hooked on the game ever since. |
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| Dealers often lure users of soft drugs into the murks of more dangerous drugs, and get them hooked on these hard drugs from there. |
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| After I read the first book, I was hooked on the series, and even though it is written for teens, it was something that I found extremely interesting to read. |
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| Conservationists estimate that as many as 100,000 albatrosses and 200,000 other birds are killed each year when they get hooked on the fishing lines and drown. |
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| He's sold millions of books over the years, keeping prepubescents and spotty adolescents alike hooked on his dynamite prose, all while pretending to do real work. |
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| For us, playing Paintball is not just a way of having fun and spending time but also a hobby, a sport to get hooked on and to be mad about. |
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| But those who are hooked on the original fear the Latin version may not be up to scratch. |
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| Jerry can be a table lamp, to be suspended in the air, or to be hooked on other objects. |
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| They sat down in the dark and received a slap in the face, a blatant provocation, a set of jump leads hooked on to their chests. |
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| Then they get hooked on these credit cards by aggressive marketing targeted toward them. |
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| When most were through, I slid out of my coat, which was hooked on the fence, and ran till I reached the forest. |
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| After a series of failed abolition bills, Wilberforce is hooked on laudanum and hallucinates contextless images of African children in chains. |
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| I would even say, to paraphrase a song that you know, it is a drug we are all hooked on. |
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| Youngsters around the world are hooked on urban American culture and are leaving their parents' generation literally in the dust. |
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| I'm hooked on it and I believe very strongly that one day I will be able to walk again. |
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| The financial bubble was created almost exclusively by men, specifically young males, hooked on excessive risk-taking. |
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| Slats or mouldboards are simply hooked on allowing replacement in as little as one minute. |
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| Superb graphics and impeccable technical production will get you hooked on this futurist racing game. |
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| Although Colin Byrne was hooked on golf from an early age his transformation into one of the world's leading caddies was more accident than destiny. |
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| He was addicted to tranquillisers and codeine tablets, taking up to 60 per day at one point, after he became hooked on the barbiturates during a period of depression. |
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| I went through a methadone program and it helped, but then you get hooked on that. |
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| Recently, however, I've gotten well and truly hooked on hellebores. |
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| They are junkies, hooked on trivia, stimulation and scandal. |
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| But of course he got hooked on crack before we could go out and do it. |
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| And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on. |
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| People tell us that all it takes is one course to get hooked on union education. |
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| He will never leave her because he is hooked on her chocolate chip cookies. |
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| It was hooked on a self-tied, gold-bodied Willie Gunn fly and played on a 15ft rod from the boat in Bemersyde's Top Corbies pool. |
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| The youth-led Flavour Gone campaign was the real champion behind this bill as flavoured tobacco is widely viewed as a major reason kids get hooked on tobacco. |
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| And enough people are hooked on it that Twitter has reached critical mass. |
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| Protecting children from harmful tobacco industry products such as candy-flavoured cigarillos and their associated marketing is critical to ensure that children do not get hooked on tobacco. |
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| They're trying to bedazzle us with very fancy prototypes to get us hooked on the fact that they're working very hard on a technology that we all agree is ultimately the prize — a zero-pollution motor vehicle. |
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| Longline fisheries pose the greatest threat, as feeding birds are attracted to the bait, become hooked on the lines, and drown. |
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| I also love Primulas, Campanulas and Digitalis but I got totally hooked on Aquilegias. |
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| You are hooked on something life-giving instead of destructive. |
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| I am a promising Googler, and I am as pathetically hooked on Romenesko as you are. |
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| The 35-year-old actor has admitted he is hooked on paragliding after having a go while shooting a movie in the States. |
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| But we became hooked on those sessions every morning. |
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| The first and still only member of the Ghanaian Winter Olympic team, Kwame began his remarkable Olympic journey while working at an indoor ski dome in the UK, where he became hooked on downhill skiing. |
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| We hope to get young people in our region hooked on sport fishing. |
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| He got hooked on snow sculpting in 1997 in Anchorage, Alaska, where he was doing a law clerkship. |
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| A lot of kids get hooked on sports by television. |
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| If you saw last week''s opening episode of FlashForward then you''ll likely already be hooked on this brand new American sci-fi drama. |
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| Let's just say things didn't turn out the way I planned, but I'm hooked on beagLing nonetheless. |
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| If you get hooked on the music, then you start listening to the words. |
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| This is how our young people get hooked on nicotine and the taste of cigarettes, and are unable to quit afterward, and the reason why we are so concerned. |
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| The 49-year-old said her former Friends co-star got her hooked on using a cross-trainer machine at the gym when she could no longer do pilates because of an injury. |
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| You can have salads that taste extraordinary! You can eat amazing foods like avocados and literally become hooked on them as your favorite snack food. |
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| As editor of The Spectator, Mr Johnson's crime was to sanction publication of an article suggesting that Liverpudlians were, among other things, hooked on grief. |
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| I was hooked on dope, and hooked bad, during this whole period, but I was also hooked behind robbery. When you're on a heroin run, you stay loaded so long as you can score. |
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| That's where both Ciaran and Rachel got hooked on rockhounding. |
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