Hooks

Once a month he attaches a device to his chest, clamps metal bracelets on his wrists, and hooks the whole thing up to a telephone.

The show, Bell Hooks argued in Black Looks: Race and Representation, “represents wom[e]n as the object of a phallocentric gaze.”

We kept going up until we found ourselves in a vast Sharkarama, a huge loft with fake sharks hung from hooks everywhere.

As a whole, Paula is neither catchy enough for the charts nor inventive enough to justify its shortage of hooks.

I love all the trappings of a classic heist plot: stopwatches and masks, grappling hooks and black turtlenecks.

Too near for reflection; too far for intervention: on tenter hooks, in fact; a sort of mental crucifixion.

She was not going to seem to give it him yet; a man on the tenter-hooks was a man in the perfectly right place.

He describes ladders of ropes, with wooden steps, and iron hooks to grip the wall top.

A number of men stood on the bow of the vessel, with ropes and boat-hooks, in readiness to catch and make fast to it.

At the other end he put little curved fish-hooks, and about two feet above them little pieces of lead, called "sinkers."