How to Use hoop in a Sentence

hoop

1 of 2 noun
  • What one of the hoops legends said.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
  • How many hoops must a customer jump through?
    — Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Push and pull to keep the hoop spinning.
    — Health Editorial Team, Health, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Push and pull to keep the hoop spinning.
    — Health Editorial Team, Health, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Go bold with a matching satin top and gold hoops.
    — Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2026
  • Catch up with the latest in high school hoops here.
    — Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Five days to jump through the hoops and get the money.
    — Elizabeth Kaye Cook august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
  • In other parts of the state, hoop nets and crab snares may be used.
    — Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025
  • But think how glorious the hoops would be.
    — Brendan Marks, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • His shot bounced around the rim and dropped through the hoop with three seconds to spare.
    — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Is the school just not committing to hoops?
    — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • This is the crazy season for college hoops.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Every third quarter this group comes out and hoops.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Stand with one leg forward and a hula hoop around your waist.
    — Health Editorial Team, Health, 20 Dec. 2025
  • From the Sports Desk Who's ready for hoops?
    — Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Be prepared to break out the hula hoops.
    — Kate Stroup, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Dec. 2025
  • But the past week of college hoops has been anything but.
    — Brendan Marks, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
  • The hoop showed up, swaddled in lots and lots of bubble wrap.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Diawara didn’t grow up in a hoops household.
    — James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Why some hoops coaches swear up a storm and others keep it clean.
    — Dan Shanoff, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The portal has made college hoops volatile.
    — Greg Cote april 6, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The actress finished things off with chunky gold hoops and a few rings.
    — Meg Walters, InStyle, 1 Apr. 2026
  • This isn't the first holiday hoops marathon.
    — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Gold hoop earrings, a gold bracelet, and a gold watch added some shine to her beach day look.
    — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 29 June 2026
  • Ready to find your signature hoops?
    — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Footwear News, 7 Aug. 2025
  • When the ball hurtled through the hoop, Carter yelled, along with the fans.
    — Josh Robbins, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Each one has its own forms, emails and hoops to jump through, and many will re-add you months later.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Two of them came against perimeter players who drove to the hoop but couldn’t speed past him.
    — Fred Katz, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Sure, the hoop landing on Rizo’s head was fun.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Like basketball, the goal is to get the ball into the hoop.
    — Eden Laase, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026

hoop

2 of 2 verb
  • Guys were just out there, hooping.
    — Tony Jones, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • City guys are the grit, can handle the basketball and can hoop.
    — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • There’s pretty much nothing to do up here but to hoop or get in trouble.
    — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Williams watched his players hoop on the new floor, waiting for their turn to move to the next station.
    — D’joumbarey Moreau, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2026
  • All-girls leagues weren’t popular yet, but Quinn relished any chance to hoop.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2021
  • Being here means that another college hoops season is about to go full swing.
    — Tom Noie, Indianapolis Star, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Josey Klingenberg also earned a pair of first-team all-county hoops nods.
    — Pat Stoetzer, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 24 Nov. 2019
  • The season has arrived, and Thompson and the Cavs are simply ready to hoop.
    — Cameron Fields, cleveland, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The Belgian stayed ready by hooping at courts on the famous Venice Beach.
    — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 9 May 2026
  • Not only is DeVries hooping at a high level again, his dad has built a fun team around him.
    — Cj Moore, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Leonie Fiebich and Raquel Carrera were both healthy, but hooping in Spain on overseas duty.
    — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 9 May 2026
  • The locale was Staples Center, one of the grandest stages a basketball player can hoop on.
    — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 19 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Overall, Denver’s offense is elite, its defense is improved and its all-important second star is hooping.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 26 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Also an accommodating teammate who can hoop like few others in Mavs history.
    — Dallas News, 10 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • At La Costa Glen, Joan still practices hooping with her original bamboo ring.
    — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 June 2018
  • This was hooping of the highest order, quite possibly the best game of the NBA season if not the craziest.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Group activities there ranged from ballet lessons and study sessions to hula-hooping to Taylor Swift and playing Uno.
    — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • The four-part docuseries is also produced by Common and George Karl, the legendary coach who also hooped in the ABA.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 15 Jan. 2026

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