HOOP in a Sentence

Learn HOOP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

31 example sentences for HOOP, such as:

1. She rose and jerked her hoops into place.
2. I wish he'd bring in more hospital supplies and less hoop skirts and lace.
3. Hold your hoop horizontally, with its opening in front of you, so that it is touching your back.
4. He considered them rather outsiders, but once they got inside they made him jump through the hoop.
5. Regardless of age, size or rhythmical ability, hooping is an activity that most everyone can enjoy.

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 Meanings and Examples of HOOP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hoop
 n.  strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, united at ends; ring; circular band
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  He followed her and brought the other geraniums, the hyacinth bulbs in a cracked custard bowl and the German ivy trained over an old croquet hoop.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
2  I wish he'd bring in more hospital supplies and less hoop skirts and lace.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  And when that gets a bit dangerous, I go to Nassau where these same Union patriots have brought powder and shells and hoop skirts for me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  It would be selfish to eat the rooster alone, and if Melanie would only move her top hoop a little higher no one would notice anything and she was so flat in the bust anyway.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  But Melanie reefed up her top hoop a little higher to hide her thickening figure and the wounded invaded the brick house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  Her hoop caught on the wheel and for a moment the crowd at Five Points had a flashing view of petticoats and pantalets.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  A splendid fellow--one of the staunch Union patriots from whom I used to buy muskets and hoop skirts for the Confederacy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  He put his hoop away, and his bat; there was no joy in them any more.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  The stone cannot be removed from its place by any force, because the hoop and its feet are one continued piece with that body of adamant which constitutes the bottom of the island.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER III.
10  On the farther side of the fence the old bee-keeper was shaving a hoop for a tub, and he did not see Levin.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 14
11  He considered them rather outsiders, but once they got inside they made him jump through the hoop.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
12  Her new green flowered-muslin dress spread its twelve yards of billowing material over her hoops and exactly matched the flat-heeled green morocco slippers her father had recently brought her from Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
13  She was a tall woman, standing a head higher than her fiery little husband, but she moved with such quiet grace in her swaying hoops that the height attracted no attention to itself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  The whole group looked up eagerly as she entered rapidly, her hoops swaying, her face tired and sad.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  She rose and jerked her hoops into place.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence:
1  Hold your hoop horizontally, with its opening in front of you, so that it is touching your back.
2  I spent about an hour and a half dropping the hoop, while I watched Kacey twirl around the back yard, full of grace and beauty.
3  Regardless of age, size or rhythmical ability, hooping is an activity that most everyone can enjoy.