Sentences with word «hooky»

At the Jelly Belly Factory, where I toured on my 26th birthday while playing hooky from work, we wore paper hats.

Sloan, meanwhile, takes his daughter out for a day playing hooky from school, leaves her in a hotel room, and drops some papers for his brother (Chris Cooper) to take guardianship of her.

Our weather has been glorious lately, so it was nice to enjoy the sunshine outside and feel like we were playing hooky on Monday!

And quite frankly, I'm already fantasizing about playing hooky for a few local day trips on my own!

The days playing hooky at the batting cage stopped.Corky moved out of Ethel's house.

;) Between construction, a day of hooky with Mitch, meetings, speaking on a panel with Rebecca Taylor, and Saint Patrick's Day celebrations in Bucktown with Shaheen and Trevor, I am spent.

That new record is a real sleeper, worthy of the crossover success enjoyed by the likes of Lady Antebellum or Sugarland; it's a smart, surprising collection of sweetly hooky songs that rest within pop, country and folk on the Venn diagram of musical genres.

Most everyone has played hooky by calling in sick to work at one time or another, but those who make a habit of it are costing their employers a lot of money over the long run.

«A» winds up playing hooky with Rhiannon for the day and taking her to the aquarium and beach.

July 30, 2012 • Watkins» new album, Sun Midnight Sun, is a smart, surprising collection of sweetly hooky songs that rest within pop, country and folk on the Venn diagram of musical genres.

His style evokes the playfulness of early Parisian modernists and yet there is a cultural seriousness in his colourful canvases, underscored by hooky titles.

On their own, they may make bad decisions on whom they decide to befriend — mischief makers, drug users, hooky players, and so on.

A cool teen plays hooky in Chicago with his girlfriend, his buddy and the classic Ferrari of his buddy's father.

Disrupting the classroom, using profanity, misbehaving on the bus, getting into a fight, or playing hooky once meant a trip to the principal's office.

Frequently played hooky while students lacked basics such as textbooks, and watched movies instead of getting gym and art.

Have read many stories about children killing their parents sisters brother in the same way as in the game specially that ice hooky thing... killing people with to score points and sure drugs with such games are behind most crimes...

Snaith was a consistent hooky - player in his high school years.

Bell has yet to top ten rushing touchdowns in his career, but has a great chance to this year if he can stop playing drug test hooky.

Try a few of these ideas for attendance notes and they'll never play hooky again.

Nearly a quarter of the city's students played hooky yesterday on the first day of school, thanks to a one - day school week wedged between two holidays.

So don't play hooky when it comes to working those quads, and don't approach them halfheartedly.

While the songs here are consistently hooky, they lack the earlier albums» sonic adventurousness.

Dove is an album of texture — there is nothing as immediate as «Feed The Tree» or any of Star's off - kilter, head - rush singles and there is nothing as hooky and bright as King's «Superconnected» — there are layers and copious amounts of digging involved here.

They're predictably wordy, occasionally dense, but always hooky and memorable.

May 10, 2010 • Dan Snaith of Caribou brought his richly layered mix of psychedelic soundscapes and hooky melodies to Washington, D.C. Hear the swirling world of sound in a full concert, with Toro Y Moi opening.

She proofreads non-fiction and all fiction genres, co-writes manuscripts, and helps writers create hooky query letters and strong synopses.

If you are snowed in today, take a look at hooky bob.

But I'm glad Dude played hooky if he was too altered to perform on the job.

If you're in the market for a new job, you need to have a strong, hooky elevator pitch.

I do nt see any little hooky thingies on the plates.

While you may not be able to jet away to an exotic locale, you can play hooky from work and have a mental vacation.

The governor was in a jokey sort of mood — a far cry from his angry rhetoric in Buffalo yesterday when he went after state worker unions and legislators who might be contemplating playing hooky for the Nov. 29 lame duck session.

After making its all - time CES debut earlier this month, Xiaomi will surprisingly play hooky at the 2017 Mobile World Congress in late February.

Since losing re-election last month, Rep. John Sweeney has played hooky in Congress, skipping votes, dodging reporters and avoiding his new make - shift office in a basement cubicle set up for lame ducks.

On the happier side, I played hooky on Tuesday afternoon to enjoy temperatures that edged close to 60 degrees.

Pierce's full - length solo debut, Year Of The Rabbit, comes out Friday, and it's a gem — a big, consistently ingratiating batch of brightly rendered, sweetly hooky songs about growing up, getting smart and refashioning yourself into the person you need to be.

Though, really, a Monday off is hardly different from the normal Saturday + Sunday off, I feel somehow like I'm playing hooky by missing a typically blech (ick, Mondays) day.

He feigns illness, and also gets his girlfriend (Sara, Timecop) and best friend (Ruck, Speed) to play hooky with him.

«Emailing your plans to play hooky the next day isn't the smartest of moves,» notes Patrick Colvin, Strategic HR Business Partner for USA Today.

In fact, the number of employees playing hooky is at its highest since 2005, when it hit 43...

Am playing hooky from my dissertation to get this project off the ground.

Summer is also major «playing hooky» time.

Enjoy some more Corn Recipes in this mailer, and for your sweet tooth, a statuesque Tollhouse Cookie Bundt Cake to slice in hunks and tote with you, should you play hooky any time soon.

In a tiny village on the Gulf of Salerno one of the kings of Italy loved to play hooky from his princely duties to gorge himself on the wares of the Pizzeria di Ponte di Campania, where the pizzas were divided north to south and east to west and the four quarters filled with four different sauces.