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How to use sinker in a sentence

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A strong boom is needed to carry the pound or more of lead that your sinker is going to weigh.
Like other members of your cult, you have swallowed the neo-Darwinian thesis hook line and sinker.
Ah, for God's sake, Ann, can't you see he's only pulling your leg, just winding you up, and you fell for it hook, line and sinker.
The crook-Conservatives lie to the idiot-conservatives who swallow the lies hook, line and sinker.
Of course, most who read this tripe have zero knowledge of firearms and swallow it hook, line, and sinker which is the goal.
Ground or pecked stone tools include hammerstones, anvils, cobble manos, metates, and a possible net sinker.
I tied on the sinker with its attendant fly and tossed the whole lot downstream into the rapids at the pool tail.
Sirotka doesn't blow hitters away with a big fastball, but he throws a lethal sinker and gets a lot of groundouts.
But that doesn't mean some 18-year-old kid isn't going to take it hook, line, and sinker and try to top it.
Last season, Ayala was the Expos' best reliever because the sinker was virtually unhittable.
Davey is more accurate than he was in the minors, but he might need to aim higher or take some of the sink out of his sinker.
His signature sinker wasn't sinking, and it appeared Brown relied on an arm angle that would put less pressure on his injury.
Now he's trying to smooth out his delivery and return the sink to his sinker.
Another tip learned from experience, is to use a heavier sinker than you might think is really necessary.
If the sinker is light, then the flow of the tide can lift your baits twenty or thirty feet away from the bottom and the feeding fish!
They purveyed all sorts of nonsense to US and UK newspapers, who swallowed it hook line and sinker.
When a fish bites, the sliding sinker enables it to swim a short distance with the bait before feeling resistance.
Fishing these rigs and baits is simple, tap the bottom with your sinker, reel up four or five turns and wait for the bite.
He has found a comfortable grip on his sinker, which consistently gets ground balls.
It's good to see as well that the world's press has swallowed this name change hook, line and sinker.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Fancy a man fishing with a float and sinker when he has a fly rod in his hand!
As it is a bottom feeder a sinker must be used to keep the bait at the proper depth.
A pressure-gauge to register the depth of the sinker has been added by Sir William.
Using as light a sinker as possible, with clam or sandworm bait, the angler may be assured of success.
An' I'll bet a sinker it'll beat that Bally Klavvy bizness if we do it well.
I have arranged this sinker, which has a hole through it, so that the line will run freely.
The weight of the sinker must be adapted to the strength of the tide.
And if their roots go back to near Wallsend or Longbenton then it's almost nailed on at some stage one of your descendants was a pit sinker.
Simply put, drop-shotting is presenting a bait or lure on the fishing line above either a sinker or heavier lure.
Even I swallered that Development Company, hook, line, and sinker.
No sinker or float is required, as the bait must be kept near the surface.
One packed rush was made to the side, and every eye counted every ripple, as moment followed moment, and no sign of either the sinker or the diver could be seen.
She began to haul in, hand under hand, rapidly and deftly, the boy encouraging her, until hooks, sinker, and a big gasping rockcod tumbled into the bottom of the boat.
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