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Examples for "hook "
1 As a result, he allowed the private sector off the financial hook .
2 The longer it takes systems to hook up, the slower manufacturers' sales.
3 Thought I'd ask, she says, letting me off the hook too easy.
4 Never mind: any moment now she would let him off the hook .
5 Does it merely facilitate quick and easy hook - ups or actually encourage them?
1 The young cop kept shifting his weight from left foot to right.
2 MS: I think the most basic responses is a ' cop watch' program.
3 I asked the cop to let me go to the ladies' room.
4 But Mr Andrews said none of them would cop a financial penalty.
5 And who will cop the cost of the thousands of free fares?
1 I heard you say a moment ago that he was a snitch .
2 Guess she was worried we'd snitch some jugs of used motor oil.
3 I don't think I want to snitch a planet from these people.
4 Sam looked at him and decided that he was an unlikely snitch .
5 Keepers looking for their snitch would jog by on their broomsticks everywhere.
1 The creatures do not enter to thieve , but merely for shelter and food.
2 They break into the wells as rats do into granaries, and thieve the water.
3 Torture and slay me if you will, but my wealth you shall not thieve .
4 First, when a person is led to thieve through necessity.
5 The leaders will thieve and collaborate with organized crime.
1 And how much should it knock off the price of a house?
2 We'll load the lead carboys on the Wondership and then knock off .
3 One of the officers saw him, and told him to knock off .
4 But many a night I did not knock off work until midnight.
5 If I lost time here, it would knock off my whole schedule.
1 They glom onto their target and prevent the virus from infecting cells.
2 We figure we could just glom onto their brand and surf the success.
3 Oh, God, had he decided to try to glom onto some nonexistent legacy?
4 They had secrets A might glom on to, if A were still around.
5 But right now you'll glom on to anybody who makes you happy in the sack.
6 Now, there's an idea I can glom on to.
7 Of course if there was only a gravitational force between these balls, they'd just glom together.
8 Make your glom - pudding of it, will you?'
9 Especially when it comes to overlooking the big picture so she can glom on to the fashion consequences.
10 If we were home, he would merely glom on to us and salivate nervously all over our clothes.
11 He's convinced there're these things floating around and they glom onto you and make you do bad stuff.
12 And believe me, I am going to buy her the doggondest best outfit I can glom my hands on.
14 She worked the burnt chestnut in with gloved numb hands, some of the color slipping inside, making the thin plastic glom to her skin.
15 The knee-deep glom on the tunnel floor exhaled it in sheets and columns, never disturbed by a clean wind or a breath of dryness.
16 But his narrowed eyes bounce off me, glomming on to something beyond.
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