Hoop

//huːp//

"Hoop" in a Sentence (27 examples)

Kids these days have no imagination whatsoever. Only a nationwide revolution and sweeping economic reform will bring the hoop and stick back into vogue.

You ride a bike and climb a ladder. But what do you do with a hula hoop?

The lion jumped through a burning hoop.

Tom bought a hula hoop.

Tom tried to hula hoop.

The hoop fell to the ground.

Sami had a basketball hoop in front of his house.

Mary wore large gold hoop earrings.

Mary wore large hoop earrings.

Tom rolled the hoop with a stick.

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the cheese hoop, or cylinder in which the curd is pressed in making cheese

gymnastic hoop

a hoop between trees

He took the removed chair and drew it so near mine, squatting in it with his ugly weight, that he pressed upon my hoop.

The door of the room now flew open, and, after pushing in her hoop sideways before her, entered Lady Bellaston, who having first made a very low courtesy to Mrs Fitzpatrick, and as low a one to Mr Jones, was ushered to the upper end of the room.

Articles ranging from Chris Johnson's "For Europeans, hoops is the second-most beautiful game" for The Globe and Mail to Adam Minter's "China Is Hoops Country" for Bloomberg Opinion have detailed the rise in basketball in a wide range of countries, including the most populous ones in the world.

Porto are playing from right to left in blue and white stripes, blue shorts and blue socks. Celtic are in their usual green and white hoops, with white shorts and white socks.

Tipperary v Clare: IF ANYTHING can relight the fire of the old Clare hurling passion it’s the sight of the blue jersey with the gold hoop.

The stewards ordered Des Coleman, the senior hoop (jockey) present, to ride and he got the horse home in a photo-finish.

But if they want to export that, then they do have to go through several hoops that you will impose upon them.

Windows forces you to jump through several hoops before allowing you to delete a partition — and for good reason.

Although restrictions like prior authorization and step therapy may be of benefit in protecting people's health or even saving them money, most Medicare beneficiaries regard them as a hassle — just more hoops to go through to get the drugs they need.

So it looks certain that I will be returning to Australia, when at the last, I am offered a job by a London school that is willing to jump through the hoops involved to sponsor me for a visa.

to hoop a barrel or puncheon

[B]ehold the wretched price of Wales, / Hoopt with a bond of yron round about, […]

Instead of hooping, they now played tennis, golf, or both.

Wassup bro when you tryna hoop you wasting yo height

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