hook and eye in a sentence

Examples

1. But Uncle Art kept hardware in his boxes : latches, brackets, hooks and eyes, braces, springs, cotter pins, picture hooks, nails and screws of all kinds.
2. The second colliery, Glenrhondda ( known locally as the Hook and Eye due to its reputation for improvisation ), was opened in 1911 by Glenavon Garw Collieries.
3. It was made to fit Preston, and then, using a series of hooks and eyes at the back, it was drawn in tight to fit Andrews'shapely figure.
4. Elastic waist cinchers, bustiers and basques may have very few plastic bones ( sometimes none ), hook and eye fastening and stretchy of flimsy polyester or latex material.
5. It is a single-breasted cloth or velvet coat, of cut-back front style, with seven buttons although actually fastened edge-to-edge on the chest by a hook and eye arrangement.
6. Thorne's mother and three sisters worked all hours sewing hooks and eyes . " It was here I had intimate experience with sweated labour ", he comments without irony.
7. It brought back memories of my mother's classic Louis Sherry candy box of buttons and tiny metal hooks and eyes ( that had probably belonged to her mother ).
8. It was also stated that all bras come with a number of hooks and eyes, allowing the bra to be adapted during a pregnancy as the woman's stomach grows.
9. Among interlocking joints he recognizes miters, rabbets, dovetails, and mortises; under releasable attachments he describes plugs and sockets, hooks and eyes, snaps, vises, forceps, anchors, suction cups, and others.
10. The " clasp locker " was a complicated hook-and-eye fastener with an arrangement of hooks and eyes run by a " guide " for closing and opening a clothing item.