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
• 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
• Yellow portals can be activated with an apparent lasso, which whips your character from one side of the room to the other—while rendering the nearby geometry in duplicate, as opposed to merely serving as a generic grappling hook.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 27 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024