How to Use hoop in a Sentence

hoop

1 of 2 noun

• His shot bounced around the rim and dropped through the hoop with three seconds to spare.
  — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
• And my dream was to play some hoops, believe it or not.
  — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Feb. 2024
• Your brain goes through a bunch of hoops to figure it out.
  — Ayana Underwood, SELF, 14 Feb. 2024
• The woman parked for a smoke, laid out a sheer black scarf to sit on one of the rocks, and took off her gold hoops.
  — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Aug. 2023
• Aside from the pink two-piece, Jenner wore two hoop earrings and a bracelet.
  — Ashley Paige, Peoplemag, 26 June 2023
• The 56-year-old enhanced the look with small gold hoops and a large gold pendant necklace.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Glamour, 14 June 2023
• The dancers wore white metal masks, green-and-white feathers and hoop skirts with tassels.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• The thinner, the better for the wooden planks so that nothing too heavy drags the hula hoops down.
  — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Aug. 2023
• Harvey tied in more of the metal with chunky hoops earrings and a dainty bracelet.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
• In many schools, those are the hoops a student must get through to join honors classes.
  — Talia Richman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2023
• But the clock hadn’t expired and finally, with 0.8 seconds left, James got the hoop.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• My go-to choices are my gold name plate, my favorite pair of hoops, and silver and gem rings.
  — Jenn Torres, refinery29.com, 13 Sep. 2023
• What to Consider The metal hoop can be hard to unclasp.
  — Irene Richardson, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2023
• Strands of steel wire were coated in rubber and formed into two hoops to make the edges of the tire, known as the beads, which lock the tire onto the wheel.
  — Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 3 May 2023
• Both are dressed in white—him in a simple polo and her in a frilly lace dress and small hoop earrings with white pearls.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Apr. 2023
• If modern isn't your style, try wrapping the hoops in yarn or ribbon.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Oct. 2023
• With its near-circular seat frame and its hoop splat back, the Thonet 209 armchair is the icon for modernists.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 14 Aug. 2023
• To complete the look Z stepped into a pair of white stiletto pumps and added gold hoop earrings and a stack of bracelets on each wrist.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 26 Apr. 2023
• But her friends on the men’s basketball team, some of whom knew Thomas from high school hoops, talked her into it.
  — cleveland, 3 Aug. 2023
• There was also the matter of syncing up the sound and picture, which turned out to be an even more wonky set of hoops to jump through.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2023
• Each wears a cropped sweater, hoop earrings and a gold necklace, one featuring a Star of David, the other a cross.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• These silver hoop earrings are stunning and only $20 for a set of three.
  — Maura Jenkins, Glamour, 27 Nov. 2023
• These days, though, travelers have to jump through more hoops to get an upgrade.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2023
• To add a bit of levity to the all-black look, Barroso finished the look with large silver hoop earrings.
  — Amanda Curran, Glamour, 28 Mar. 2023
• Obama added a stack of black bracelets and wore her hair in sporty ponytail, showing off a pair of chunky silver hoops.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2023
• One of them featured a hoop adorned with a beading charm, while the other earring dangled.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 9 Sep. 2023
• With other friends from the neighborhood, Anne and I rode scooters, played hopscotch and pushed hoops with a stick.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
• The star, a Louis Vuitton ambassador, wore her hair in chic loose waves, adding some silver hoop earrings to the glam look.
  — Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
• Finally, the pop star added a hint of sparkle to her sporty-casual date look with chunky hoop earrings and a matching necklace, and wore her hair down in loose waves.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024
• Inside the dim, rambling building—past rows piled with Persian rugs, hoop skirt frames and rolls of French velour—Yergason found his fellow clerks.
  — Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024

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hoop

2 of 2 verb

• City guys are the grit, can handle the basketball and can hoop.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• The season has arrived, and Thompson and the Cavs are simply ready to hoop.
  — Cameron Fields, cleveland, 22 Oct. 2019
• Even without one of their stars, the 76ers offense has been moving the ball well and getting to hoop with ease in the past few games.
  — Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2023
• There’s pretty much nothing to do up here but to hoop or get in trouble.
  — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Aug. 2017
• All-girls leagues weren’t popular yet, but Quinn relished any chance to hoop.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2021
• The club where Villa learned to hoop and helped so many others do the same held a moment of silence for him Sunday morning.
  — Matthew Ormseth, courant.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• Josey Klingenberg also earned a pair of first-team all-county hoops nods.
  — Pat Stoetzer, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 24 Nov. 2019
• The locale was Staples Center, one of the grandest stages a basketball player can hoop on.
  — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• Being here means that another college hoops season is about to go full swing.
  — Tom Noie, Indianapolis Star, 31 Mar. 2020
• Forty-five years later, the Portland Trail Blazers’ coach is poised to join an elite fraternity of this hoops hotbed.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 5 Dec. 2019
• If the hooper cannot hoop through the full minute with the Hula-Hoop, try starting over again or try collecting data for only 30 seconds.
  — Science Buddies, Scientific American, 11 July 2013
• The sticks are so easy to use, they can be applied in the middle of a rave or while hula-hooping in the park, which is probably where most people will end up wearing them.
  — Shannon Barbour, The Cut, 6 Feb. 2018
• True to form, Ora threw in her signature Jennifer Fisher hoops to round out her structured suiting with shine that could go from 9 to 5 and beyond.
  — Maria Ward, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2018
• In Columbia, crowds hooped and hollered when the sky went dark, as confused crickets and cicadas began chirping and street lights flickered on.
  — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 21 Aug. 2017
• When combined with his deadpan delivery and wry sense of humor, each obstacle to overcome or hoop to jump through takes on a life of its own.
  — Alexis Burling, SFChronicle.com, 21 June 2018
• In the past, Gay helped finance the building of playgrounds in Baltimore, as well as organizing a youth hoops tournament.
  — Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Mar. 2018
• These details are definitely cool, but to us, the sleeper hit of the drop are the special edition Nike x MoMa socks releasing with the shoes, the ones that take beloved Nike hooping socks and give them a fine-art spin.
  — Jake Woolf, GQ, 27 Jan. 2018
• Children start hoop dancing at very young ages, such as those who were under 5 and participated in the grand entry of the competition.
  — Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2022
• Garrett has been known to still hoop from time to time, and last June a highlight reel of one of his summer pickup games went viral with Garrett showing off his dunking abilities.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 18 Feb. 2022
• At La Costa Glen, Joan still practices hooping with her original bamboo ring.
  — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 June 2018
• Group activities there ranged from ballet lessons and study sessions to hula-hooping to Taylor Swift and playing Uno.
  — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2018
• So this hopeless hoops romantic, in response, felt compelled to attend a Spurs game as early as possible.
  — Marc Stein, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2019
• The image of the Mamba, relentless and obsessive, fed the perception that he would be lost without the competitive outlet that hoops provided.
  — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 12 July 2018
• Related Group activities there ranged from ballet lessons and study sessions to hula-hooping to Taylor Swift and playing Uno.
  — NBC News, 12 Apr. 2018
• Oh’s fringed women’s wear was swished about by a troupe of ballet dancers en pointe; Area’s designs were shown on models shooting sprays of bubbles, while a performance artist demonstrated advanced hula-hooping in their midst.
  — Matthew Schneier, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2016
• Also an accommodating teammate who can hoop like few others in Mavs history.
  — Dallas News, 10 Feb. 2023
• Find inspiration in the monthly patterns that appear in Country Living and download our free templates—or hoop it up with your own starter kit. Document your family history.
  — Country Living Staff, Country Living, 11 June 2020
• There also will be food, music, vendors and additional classes and workshops in areas such as aerial yoga, acro-yoga, hooping, walking meditation, photography and essential oils. wanderlust.com/108s.
  — Dan Kelly, kansascity.com, 16 May 2017
• While graduation is a formality for some, 26 students from Monterey High’s continuation program hooped, hollered and cried after turning their tassels during the school’s 36th annual commencement on campus Friday afternoon.
  — Andrew J. Campa, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
• City guys are the grit, can handle the basketball and can hoop.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 11 Nov. 2019

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