How do you use the word "hook" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "hook": Hang your coat on the hook. I got several bites, but could not hook a fish.

Hook Meaning

/hʊk/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.

nounA barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.

Sentence Examples

Hang your coat on the hook.

I got several bites, but could not hook a fish.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

rob soak pluck

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

He tried to ____ the big fish with a sharp metal hook.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The fisherman carefully placed a worm on the ____ before casting his line into the water.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc (“angle, point, hook”), from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz, variant of *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”). Cognates Cognate with Scots huke, huik (“hook”), West Frisian and Dutch hoek (“hook, angle, corner”), Low German Hook, Huuk, German Hook (“small cluster of farms”), Faroese høkja (“crutch”), Icelandic hækja (“crutch”), Norn hek (“crutch”), Finnish kuokka (“hoe, mattock”). Related to hake.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

""If I were a pirate and lost my hand, I would ask them to replace it with a computer mouse rather than a hook. I use a computer mouse all day, and I only use a hook three to five times a day."¶ -Emma Stone¶ On hooks" — 2019 February 19, Clickhole, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2022, This quote is falsely attributed to Emma Stone for humorous effect:

"Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, / Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook / Spares the next swath and all its twinèd flowers: [...]" — 1819 September 19, John Keats, “To Autumn”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 138:

"A shop of all the qualities, that man Loues woman for, besides that hooke of Wiuing," — 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:

"“What makes you so sure that nobody knows you've got a hook into him?” Ward asked." — 2020, Joel W. Barrows, Deep Red Cover:

"Much of the Two in Twenty humor is insider stuff; this soap is clearly made for lesbians who have been around the city block, with a few road trips to Michigan. Gay men may love it as well, and others with a hook into contemporary urban dyke life." — 1988 February 7, Elizabeth Pincus, “A Romp Through Lavender Land”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 7:

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