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  • adjective shaped in the form of a hook

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Examples

  • This guy had a large hook-shaped nose and he was thin, according to the statement.

    Wild Scene as Suspect Is Arraigned Sean Gardiner 2011

  • For more than a decade, Ponta dos Ganchos has been the area's only five-star lodging, located across Dolphin Bay from the island on a rocky, hook-shaped point that inspires its name.

    Have It Your Way Scott Mitchem 2012

  • As we left, a yellow-breasted kiskadee set off from the cannon, ascending in a great arc over the water, soaring high above the hook-shaped archipelago of the Great Sound toward the distant outline of Gibbs Hill Lighthouse, the beat of her wings thankfully undisturbed by the sound of gunfire.

    Losing Oneself in Bermuda William Lyons 2011

  • "It's like a smiley face, with one eye," he said, describing the red, hook-shaped marks.

    Charlie Davies on the bear hug, the Stanky Leg, Georgetown and Raclette Dan Steinberg 2011

  • She knew she would have a baby girl, Anna, who would have the same hook-shaped birthmark on her forehead.

    Off Island (novel excerpt) 2009

  • Do you see this l-shaped or hook-shaped recovery where we never really get back to where it was before?

    CNN Transcript May 10, 2009 2009

  • Do you see this l-shaped or hook-shaped recovery where we never really get back to where it was before?

    CNN Transcript May 9, 2009 2009

  • You toss them around with hook-shaped sticks which in this case Yusupha got from the bush and burnt before bending them like little Japanese habachi chefs.

    In case you're interested... Adam Horowitz 2008

  • You toss them around with hook-shaped sticks which in this case Yusupha got from the bush and burnt before bending them like little Japanese habachi chefs.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Adam Horowitz 2008

  • Hamza has been reviled by Britain's raucous tabloid press for his lurid anti-American diatribes and for his physical handicaps, which include a severely-injured eye and hook-shaped prosthetic hands which he was fitted with after supposedly being injured in an explosion in Afghanistan.

    Terror Watch: A Legal Counterattack 2007

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