hook-like

Several hundred devotees spear their cheeks with long, shiny steel rods – often a metre long – and pierce their chests and backs with small, hook-like needles in penance.

Thaipusam03 « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008

The barbules have small hook-like processes called barbicels.

Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

Verstehen is seeing a hook-like object and reflexively and instantaneously imagining that you could use it to catch fish, or seeing a sharp-edged object and imagining without any internal discourse or deliberation that “I could kill and eat food with that”.

Archive 2009-07-01 enowning 2009

The ability of New Caledonian crows to make hook-like sticks which they use to winkle out food such as insect grubs is well-known.

Crows as Intelligent as Apes | Impact Lab 2007

Verstehen is seeing a hook-like object and reflexively and instantaneously imagining that you could use it to catch fish, or seeing a sharp-edged object and imagining without any internal discourse or deliberation that “I could kill and eat food with that”.

enowning enowning 2009

Sereno discovered in 1997, likely feasted mostly on fish because of its long, narrow snout and hook-like teeth.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

On most species there are small hook-like structures on each corner.

Mollusca 2007

Once we know that much, telling us about it in more detail instead of adding significant details that are actually new plot twists just makes it less hook-like.

HH Com 206 (201) Miss Snark 2006

You'd need to make these issues clearer in in order to get this to be more hook-like.

HH 309 (308 is in the wind) Miss Snark 2006

I like the premise, but it's not written in a hook-like style.

HH Com 676 Miss Snark 2006