hack - use in sentences

Object

  • registry: Following some of the threads on here I hacked the registry to give Dword Bluetooth Browser enabled value 0 ( instead of 1 ).
  • ball: From the resulting play Town elected to kick but Danny Brough hacked the ball clear for a drop out.
  • pace: I was so worried at the start that I wouldn't be able to hack the pace of a 9-5.

Converse of object

  • assemble: But the assembled hacks were faced with a torrential downpour as they attempted to leave the reception.
  • detect: They also do detect some unlocker hacks, but not all.

Adjective modifier

  • talentless: Reviewed by: Wez Reviewed on: 25 Mar 2006 Eli Roth is a talentless hack.
  • tabloid: Just brace yourself for the next few weeks of the tabloid hacks digging up as much dirt as possible on the Gaydamak family.
  • cynical: Another cowardly cynical hack on a player of superior ability.
  • fellow: Acting on a tip-off from a fellow political hack, Nelson accused Sunday Telegraph political editor Patrick Hennessy of being behind the dirty deed.

Adjective complement

  • clear: The ball, however, smacked off the left upright and was hacked clear.

Modifying Another Word

  • cynically: McCarthy was cynically hacked down for ours but somehow managed to play on afterward.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • around: I am not even going to suggest you do not hack around inside the spreadsheets.
  • down: Colbeck's first action saw him hacking down Lee Trundle earning him a yellow card within 15 seconds of coming onto the field.

Followed by a transitive particle

  • off: They even hacked off the hands of those who raised them to surrender!

Used with why or when

  • who: New barge by chickens to hack who beat some.
  • that: A web site hack that shuts down an e-commerce site can have disastrous consequences for a business.

Particle object: off_obj

  • plaster: We contracted a dpc company ( not original company ) however hacking off the plaster revealed not brick walls but clunch.

Noun used with modifier

  • unlocker: They also do detect some unlocker hacks, but not all.
  • graphics: At last count, it came with 64 different graphics hacks.

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