How to Use grappling hook in a Sentence

grappling hook

noun

• The attackers climbed the walls with ladders and grappling hooks.
  — Cody Cassidy, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2023
• One such piece of equipment, the grappling hook, is the star of the show, featured not just in the game’s marketing and trailers but also in the in-game cutscenes.
  — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
• But the spike is also the grappling hook and battering ram that the virus uses to attach to and invade host cells.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 1 Mar. 2021
• The kit included a magnet with a 3,500-pound pull force, protective gloves, a rope and a grappling hook.
  — Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 2 Feb. 2023
• Some are topped by round tubes, which are less vulnerable to grappling hooks than sharp edges.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2017
• The only thing not practical about Kim and Ron's crime-fighting attire is the grappling hook gun.
  — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 24 June 2022
• The game’s most notable change is the addition of the grappling hook, which can be picked up in regular spawn locations on the map.
  — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2021
• Some give you a higher jump or faster run; one gives you a retractable vine that’s basically a grappling hook.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2023
• Even so, Rusted Moss separates itself from the crowd thanks in large part to a unique grappling hook mechanic.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 29 Apr. 2022
• Rather than strut on a stage or descend via grappling hook, West opted for a more natural entrance.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2019
• Batman uses it to launch something like a grappling hook, which is connected to a cable.
  — Wired, 24 July 2022
• Aiden can use over 3000 parkour animations, a grappling hook, a host of melee weapons, and even zombie-like skills himself to contend with the undead.
  — Brittany Vincent, BGR, 31 Oct. 2021
• Here, Master Chief uses his new grappling hook to attach to a distant point, then fling himself forward quickly.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2021
• Master Chief begins the game with the grappling hook as a piece of equipment, giving the player a few hours to experiment with it in the opening, lower-pressure levels.
  — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
• Another held a series of grappling hook swings over a boiling underground lake.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 27 Mar. 2018
• The mode also supports the incredibly cool trick of attaching this sequel's new grappling hook to any other Master Chief in your squad.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2022
• There would be a little action figure of himself, with a grappling hook that would actually shoot up, through a spring mechanism.
  — Jack Handey, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
• This was a six and a half minute narrated, edited video, showing a mix of cutscenes and in-game action with Master Chief doing cool grappling hook tricks and blowing up Banished bases all over his new open map.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• Far and away, the best new addition to the series is the grappling hook, perhaps not a new gaming concept in general, but when combined with Master Chief’s usual gameplay?
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
• Other available badges let Mario jump higher, grab distant walls with a piranha plant grappling hook, or climb up walls with a useful vertical jump.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2023
• In the simplest version, a bacterium with a lusty plasmid uses grappling hooks to snare a plasmidless mate, and a fusion point forms between the two; the donor bacterium then copies its plasmid and passes the spare to its mate.
  — Mark Caldwell, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• The videos instead lingered on the suspenseful logistics of a recovery: currents push the boat sideways, something mysterious pops up on the sonar screen, a grappling hook snags on a log.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• In the early days of these water retrievals, workers were expected to fish them out themselves; LimeBike workers even cobbled together a makeshift grappling hook to snare them.
  — Mark Harris, WIRED, 14 June 2018
• In 2021, when every other action franchise is integrating a grappling hook, take this as a refresher.
  — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 4 May 2021
• Beyond the detailed grit and grime, the headquarters is filled with props of both the automotive and action-adventure variety, including grappling hooks, bullet-proof vests and ammo crates.
  — Matt Cabral, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 May 2018
• It was suspended by an extra-strong polyethylene rope and grappling hook over a rectangular hole in the dock, below an awning where bright-red letters cut from PVC board entreated: go deeper.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
• Once reserved for those who couldn't pay their electricity bills or wanted to grow weed inside, snagging some free power via grappling hook is now a military operation.
  — Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2010
• Nobody's adding magical warping portals or grappling hooks to the series' authentic, slow-and-sturdy mech-suit locomotion.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2019
• Rise introduces a grappling hook that revolutionizes the series’s plodding movement schemes.
  — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2021
• Police also found an array of weapons and gear in Miller’s house, prosecutors said, including a grappling hook, ropes, body armor, night vision goggles, a crossbow and arrows, and multiple firearms with ammunition.
  — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024