Example Sentences

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So pick your poison so to speak if you'd like to catch than this has been your year, and it seems like the larger ocean hooknosed coho have yet to appear in larger numbers.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 18, 2011

Black, hooknosed and web-footed, the hunter can dive as deep as 75 ft. under water and consume a pound of fish a day.

From Time Magazine Archive

First published in an expurgated edition in 1874, nine years after hooknosed, cynical-lipped, elegant Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville's death, they seemed to Queen Victoria in "DISGRACEFULLY bad taste."

From Time Magazine Archive

Leo Davidovich Bronstein, middleaged, nearsighted, hooknosed, big-lipped, spectacled, with a shock of greying hair, is an exile on the island of Prinkipo in the Sea of Marmosa.

From Time Magazine Archive

He got down briskly and bowed to Miss Haldin, looking absurdly like a hooknosed boy with a beautiful false pepper-and-salt beard.

From Under Western Eyes by Conrad, Joseph