Large, hook-shaped claws trailed near the ground at the ends of long arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloodlines]

"Bermuda" read the one word over a map of the fish hook-shaped island chain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brannon's Choice]

Fig. 30 represents a hook-shaped formation, and Fig. 31 a straight grind, without any top rake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference

Do you see this l-shaped or hook-shaped recovery where we never really get back to where it was before?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 9, 2009] Reference

She knew she would have a baby girl, Anna, who would have the same hook-shaped birthmark on her forehead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Off Island (novel excerpt)] Reference

The cut was made with the hook-shaped point of the blade, which when opened must have been nine inches long.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary] Reference

(A bill is a polearm, having a long staff terminating in a hook-shaped blade, usually with spikes at the back and top.).    From Wordnik.com.  [New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America] Reference

One is a cypress with a hook-shaped root, representing the male, and the other is a cherry whose trunk is forked, representing the female.    From Wordnik.com.  [2005 February » Japundit Blog] Reference

The great, hook-shaped claws seized Gavvan, lifting him from the ground, and with a violent scissorslike motion left him in two large pieces, dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloodlines]

Silvernail, puffing on a hook-shaped stub, lugging a 16 mm projector, leaves ARF by way of a long row of cages, exercise wheels strobing under the fluorescent lights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gravity's Rainbow]

The actual arches are of two orders, each of which has the edge-roll, while under the soffit, which is flat, is another roll between two mouldings that are hook-shaped in section.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference

A few palmyras, date-palms and screw-pines (a sort of aloe, whose leaves are armed with formidable triple rows of hook-shaped thorns) dot the expanse or run in straight lines between the fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

A small hook-shaped tool, heated over a gas jet, is used to melt small pieces of wax which are run carefully around all the names and in the spaces between lines, thus filling up all these spaces with a round, smooth body of wax.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference

A gutter-cleaning tool is a hook-shaped nozzle extension.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference

"Mar Aparcelado" or shoaly sea, a curious hook-shaped bight with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2] Reference

Spare a thought for Amali the giraffe whose nape turned hook-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

The cedille is a hook-shaped appendage, most familiarly used under a - c.    From Wordnik.com.  [WordPress.com Top Blogs] Reference

Everywhere the vintagers are busy detaching the grapes with their little hook-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines] Reference

Using a hook-shaped instrument, he snared one horn of Snowball's uterus and then the second horn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

Miss Emelene extended the somewhat reluctant Maltese paw, five hook-shaped claws slightly in evidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors] Reference

M events produced hook-shaped field changes, accompanied by active burst of radiations at their beginnings.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

Some were hook-shaped, and there were members of the order in which the shell was straight, and yet retained all the internal structures of its kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Geology] Reference

Scanning electron micrographs show the ambush ants 'hook-shaped claws, which like Velcro they use to latch onto the undersides of certain leaves (F and G).    From Wordnik.com.  [Livescience.com] Reference

In the case of star-hopping, an expert won't blink at "look 2 degrees SW of a hook-shaped formation found 5 degrees along a line defined by Alpha and Theta.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Knowing .NET] Reference

= brown-bill =: a weapon consisting of a long staff with a hook-shaped blade at the top.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Literary World Seventh Reader] Reference

Washington, D.C., sits alongside the Potomac, just north of the river’s hook-shaped curve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Record Setting US Snowstorm as Seen From Space | Universe Today] Reference

The longer he studied her, though, the more he noticed the differences: Lia’s sinewy arms and chiseled bone structure, her crooked lower teeth and a small hook-shaped scar beside her nose.    From Wordnik.com.  [String Theory, Book 3: Evolution] Reference

20-minute flight takes us to the floes near the hook-shaped Iles-de-la-Madeleine (Magdalens in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference