How to Use hookah in a Sentence

hookah

noun
  • Nur paid for the lunch and the cost of the hookah at a hookah bar, Camille says.
    — Moises Mendez Ii, Rolling Stone, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The bar also offers jerk wings, frozen drinks, hookah and more.
    — Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2024
  • In one scene, characters smoke from a hookah and float off the ground.
    — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Robinson smoked his first hookah on the floor of Allawi’s barracks.
    — Benoît Morenne, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The bar and hookah lounge will partner with Caribbean food trucks.
    — Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 1 Feb. 2024
  • There’s lots of booze, screaming crowds, noisy pumping music, and late-night snacks and hookah bars.
    — Pavlo Fedykovych, CNN, 25 May 2023
  • Some Cairenes pay less for monthly rent than for a hookah at their neighbourhood café.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2018
  • Ali Maadi, 35, was busy setting up a stand to sell drinks, snacks and hookahs.
    — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Dončić drinks beer and smokes hookah, neither of which is atypical for a 25-year-old.
    — C. Clark, M. Vorkunov and F. Katz, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025
  • This song is due to ring off in the Uptown NYC hookah lounges.
    — Angel Diaz, Billboard, 12 July 2024
  • Rami Abadi was hanging out with his friends at a local hookah bar.
    — Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Police say Cardi and others threw bottles, chairs and hookah pipes in the clash.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The beat is rather muted, mostly radio-friendly clap hits with bassy bits here and there that give off hookah bar vibes.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 19 July 2019
  • In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself.
    — Maria L. La Ganga, idahostatesman, 9 June 2017
  • Carroll wasn’t known as a drug taker, but what’s with the caterpillar hitting on that hookah?
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Here, vendors set up stalls to hawk goods and sugary concoctions and friends gathered around hookah pipes.
    — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The bar has a full menu of mocktails, plus hookah, pastries and coffee in the morning and live music and events at night.
    — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Across the street from the hotel is a discount shopping center; the area is filled with narrow, dingy shops and hookah bars.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2017
  • On Wednesday, officials banned hookah from cafes in a bid to stem the contagion.
    — Ramin Mostaghim, Mostafa Salem and Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Instead, elderly men sat on the stoops outside some homes, smoking hookahs and shuffling cards.
    — Kunal Sehgal, CNN, 22 Oct. 2024
  • On the starboard side lies a bar embellished with amethyst and agate, while the port side is home to a hookah room with fold-down down sea terraces.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 18 Aug. 2023
  • On Sunday, like most days, the restaurant was filled with soldiers chatting and smoking hookah.
    — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
  • Elmi took a hookah out of a bag and then managed to light the pipe despite an approaching thunderstorm.
    — Molly Korzenowski, Twin Cities, 5 June 2019
  • Police said a fight broke out in which chairs, bottles and hookah pipes were thrown, causing minor injuries to the bar employees.
    — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 21 June 2019
  • Talat usually woke up before his sons to make tea and smoke a hookah before heading back to the basement, Sherif said.
    — Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Basam brought the man, Ahmed Saad, to a bench, where Major Mezher and others were smoking a hookah.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
  • The mesmerizing movement of men tossing sticks of fire on the sand and people pulsing to the beat in a haze of hookah smoke felt like a scene plucked straight from the show.
    — Anna Haines, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The performers were wearing drapes over their heads and chanting to drone music while smoking a hookah, and there were flowers everywhere.
    — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 8 May 2026
  • Of the dozen hookah lounges there, Sands of Persia offers an experience that stands out from other, more no-frills hookah spots.
    — Caroline Shin, Bon Appétit, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Guests can even smoke a hookah after dinner which is total standard digestive fare for so many places in the Middle East.
    — Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024

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