Sweeping aside all this superficial rubbish, as a mere concession to the faded taste of the age of hoops and wigs, Walpole has something to say for himself.
We sometimes talk as if our ancestors were nothing but hoops and wigs; and forget that they had a fair allowance of human passions.
Wooden hoops cut in halves answer better than the wire.
Old men and young girls, matrons and aged dames, all crowded round the tables, their hoops crushing together, their tall powdered heads sometimes meeting in sharp collision.
In a state of felicity undreamt of before, he played, or affected to play, croquet, his right hand against his left, the former giving the latter two hoops and a cage.
The presses consisted of two parallel timbers framed together, long enough to receive the sixteen hoops on edge above a gap between them.
The steamer consisted of two covered wooden hoops not unlike that seen in Fig.
They filled the casks from the boat, and when they went back to the caravel they found small bits of gold sticking to the hoops of the casks and of the barrel.
In nearly every garden they are painted a strong raw green with the hoops black, whereas any green that is not bright and raw would be much better.
Moreover, there is no reason for painting the hoops black; it is much better to paint the whole out of one pot.
Its interior is of cast iron, one of the earliest known specimens of the metal in that form, and iron hoops have been shrunk upon this inner core.
Pieces or bars of iron were arranged longitudinally so as to form a rough tube, around which iron hoops were placed to hold them together.
It proved to be a gipsy encampment, consisting of three or four little cabins, or tents, made of blankets and sail-cloth, spread over hoops that were stuck in the ground.
The hoops are sometimes made of hazel and oak, but these are easily broken by dashing against the shaft, while those made of iron are more durable.
Between the discs are several iron hoops to which the leather is fastened, making such folds as are to be seen in paper lanterns that are folded together.
When he held the paper hoops for her to jump through he smiled on her; when to the sound of the music be balanced her on the top of the high mast, and the audience was hushed with fright, he felt uneasy himself.
The three dived into the cellar, and returned with hoopsas tall as themselves.
We'll make Irene and Mae Mertelle rollhoops around the oval.
He was a small, swarthy man, and even at the distance of the front gate from Agnes' window the girl could see that he wore gold hoops in his ears.
A big, dark man, with gold hoops in his ears, was driving it.
In Asturias these hoops become very broad indeed, leaving only about half an inch of wood showing between; they are kept brightly polished, and make a very handsome show on a cottage dresser, but must be rather heavy on the head.
At Pamplona the hoops are equally wide, but there are only two of them; and at Pontevedra we saw a queer jug-shaped bucket which we never encountered elsewhere.
Hoops were the order of the day; and Farnham came up and asked Digby if he had got a hoop.
Many hoops were overthrown; the rest of the boys, with loud shouts, rushed on to the end, wheeling their hoops round, to prepare for another charge.
All that afternoon the game of hoops went on, the boys knocking away with their sticks and shouting at the top of their voices; till poor Mr Sanford's shattered nerves were almost completely unstrung.
The next encounter of thehoops took place exactly in a line with that spot; and though several other boys went up to it, their numbers did not appear to have increased.
Those whose hoops had been knocked down assembled on one side, close to the side wicket.
Curiously, she always sought refuge in the very sanctum of punishment, her face hidden in her bended arms, her hoops standing out behind, vouchsafing nothing but tears, and the promise to tell Madame Joubert.
After they had eaten, Peter and Early Ann pulled up the hoops and pegs, gathered the balls and mallets in their arms.
Gus was known for miles around as the croquet fiend who had scored all the hoops in one turn at a Sunday School picnic, while Peter could often run a hoop from a most disadvantageous angle.
The hoops are lined with cloth to prevent the loss of curd particles while draining.
Draining (including pressing, grinding and putting into hoopsor forms).
The hot curd is transferred directly to the hoops without cooling.
The table on the following page shows the usual sizes of the hoops and the weight and name applied to the cheese.
Enough hoops should be prepared to hold all the day's curd as fast as it is ready.
It may be shaped is hoops under pressure, as Ricotte, an Italian form.
When ready to dress the cheese, the press is opened and the hoops turned down.
The hoops are arranged upon draining tables with more or less corrugated surface, which for best drainage should be covered with matting.
Hoops when properly filled have taken in approximately 2 quarts of milk each.
The freshly filled hoops are allowed to stand and drain without pressure in a room at about 70 deg.
These hoops are placed as thickly as possible upon the mats.
When solid enough to stand the hoops are removed, the cheeses are scraped or rubbed with a knife until the surface is smooth, and commonly wrapped with a cloth bandage to maintain the shape, if the cheese is still too soft to stand firmly.
Among these portraits of the illustrious Febrers were a number of women, grand señoras with great hoops filling the whole canvas, like those painted by Valasquez.
Croquet hoopson the grass near these hurdles seem to have a great attraction for them.
After each pursuit of a passing fly they would return now to the same hoop, now to another, and sometimes they seemed to go the round of all the hoops in turn.
When flycatchers have been on the croquet hoops and swallows were flying low, they had not seldom to get pretty sharply out of the way to avoid a collision, as the swallows appeared purposely to fly at them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hoops" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
