Hooks in example sentence

Though many countries have committed in recent decades to abolishing capital punishment and inhumane treatment and practices, the instruments of torture – such as finger screws, thumb cuffs, leg irons, restraint chairs, spiked batons, and whips embedded with barbs, hooks, or spikes – are still being traded freely across borders.

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It hooks up all parts of the brain.

And when we first hear that word, we start putting these associational hooks into it, that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

There's something about the repetition, the constant little dopamine hit of the reveal, that completely hooks them in.

It's connected; it all hooks into each other.

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