How to Use fishhook in a Sentence

fishhook

noun
Definition of fishhooknext
  • The question mark at the end of that sentence is a fishhook in Cy’s throat.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The fishhook and the wire had gotten stuck to the bush, officials said.
    — Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Now here comes the fishhook, for the benefit of my friend.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2022
  • With his magical fishhook, the demigod pulled up the islands from the ocean floor.
    — Vanessa Hua, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2018
  • Species like the fishhook water flea and the bloody red shrimp — which could be even worse than invasive carp.
    — Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Journal Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The biggest fear is a fishhook puncturing the inner tube that keeps them afloat far from shore.
    — Matias Delacroix and Juan Pablo ArrÁez, Star Tribune, 15 Aug. 2020
  • In the southern sky, just above the treetops will be a fishhook shape of stars centered on Antares (Scorpius the Scorpion).
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 23 June 2020
  • While hen droppings are small and spiraled, gobbler scat is bigger, curved like a fishhook and splashed with white.
    — Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 20 Apr. 2020
  • In addition to knives, this model can be used to sharpen fishhooks, too.
    — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
  • Then pass the other rope through the hook shape from behind, wrap it around the entire fishhook once and then tuck the smaller line between itself and the other rope.
    — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2019
  • So the fish that guard their nests most aggressively might also be the most likely to bite into a fishhook.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2012
  • Most of these hunters are setting up full-body decoys in the same fishhook or horseshoe pattern every time.
    — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 2 Jan. 2020
  • The ceramic rod also has a groove that can be used for sharpening fishhooks.
    — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Mundane objects — weights and scales, fishhooks, playing dice, lamps and cookware — bring the verses of the New Testament to life.
    — Fox News, 7 July 2018
  • It had been mangled by fishing lines and hooks, its tongue hanging out, slashed by a large fishhook that had gone through it from underneath.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Scorpius is visible above the southern horizon as a long fishhook shape.
    — Dean Regas, Cincinnati.com, 10 June 2020
  • Meanwhile, the orangutans tested were able to complete the fishhook easily.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 12 Nov. 2018
  • The photo was later altered to depict him appearing to chase after a dollar bill pierced by a fishhook.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The bite left Manser unable to walk for months and, at one point, reduced him to using a fishhook in an attempt to remove festering infection from his leg.
    — Erik Spanberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Excavations also recovered a bone fishhook from roughly the same period, and grinding stones used to process nuts or seeds.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Many of the bones end up as jewelry or staffs carved in the distinctive flowing, openwork style of Maori art, which often features fierce and beautiful stylized human figures, spirals, and fishhooks.
    — National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Their fish had been bred into two lines: one that's especially likely to attack a fishhook, and one that's especially unlikely.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2012
  • Things like fishhook injuries; fish, shellfish spine punctures; barnacle cuts; and wade fishing cuts (and) abrasions are much more likely to cause problems than a swimming exposure in the Gulf of Mexico.
    — Katie Hall, ajc, 5 Apr. 2017
  • The error was repeated in an accompanying picture caption about one item, a 19th century fishhook.
    — New York Times, 11 May 2017
  • Miramar and its neighboring suburbs, located on a spit of land jutting like a fishhook out into the South Pacific, have become the front line for testing and refining the urban eradication methods to be deployed countrywide.
    — Mara Johnson-Groh, Wired, 30 May 2020
  • Miramar and its neighboring suburbs, located on a spit of land jutting like a fishhook out into the South Pacific, have become the frontline for testing and refining the urban eradication methods to be deployed countrywide.
    — Mara Johnson-Groh, Popular Science, 26 May 2020
  • The turtles were rehabilitated from injuries that included ingesting fishhooks and being entangled in fishing lines.
    — Melissa Nelson Gabriel, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2017

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