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How to use hark in a sentence

10 example sentences · verb, noun

Hark means to listen attentively. Example: “"The building's design harks back to traditional station architecture," says HS2 Project Client Ailsa Waygood.”

More sentences with hark

  • "The building's design harks back to traditional station architecture," says HS2 Project Client Ailsa Waygood.2025 October 15, Peter Plisner, “HS2 progress at Curzon Street”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 35. From the entry Waygood
  • Zecond thing: what 'st think volk 'ud want to bide and hark to such vlother vor!1922, Samuel Robinson Littlewood, Somerset and the Drama, page 89. From the entry vlother
  • Today Coke exists as nostalgic brand, harking back to the day when the drink enjoyed its peak iconic stature.2004, D. B. Holt, How Brands Become Icons, Harvard Business Press, →ISBN, page 27. From the entry Americana
  • Accompanying himself with his dulcimer, a plectrum instrument of his own handicraft, Niles harks back to the balladeers of old.1947 January 25, “Album Reviews: The Seven Joys of Mary—John: Jacob Niles (Disc 732)”, in The Billboard, volume 59, number 4, Nielsen…. From the entry dulcimer
  • He was harking back, scornfully, to that green elf-circle into which the tall Riviera girl had lured him.1925, G.B. Stern, The Matriarch, New York: Grosset and Dunlop, page 41. From the entry elf circle
  • Once again, even when Christmas was outlawed, we see people harking back to a forgotten glorious age of Ye Olde Christmas Celebration.2017, Paul Kerensa, Hark! The Biography of Christmas, Oxford: Lion Hudson, →ISBN, pages 136–137. From the entry Christmaslessness
  • "Hark ye, mistress," said the shepherd.1920, Sabine Baring-Gould, chapter XXII, in Mehalah: a story of the salt marshes. From the entry spit out
  • Hark, —his tortured catgut squals He tickles every string, to every note He bends his pliant neck.—The fond yielding Maid Is tweedled into Love.1905, William Bentley, The Diary of William Bentley D.D.,, page 267. From the entry tweedle
  • Punctually as we stand-to about 3 a.m. hark! and their thin sweet voice intensening with the growing light 'droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven upon the place beneath'.2016, John Lewis-Stempel, Where Poppies Blow. From the entry intensen
  • Your warriors harked to my words, and they marked how I handled my praise of your high-flying days, and they'll not forget what I've now forthset."2003, Poul Anderson, Mother of Kings. From the entry forthset

Meaning of hark

  1. verb To listen attentively.
  2. noun A whisper.

Full definition of hark

Questions about hark in a sentence

How do you use hark in a sentence?
Hark is used as a verb and noun. For example: “"The building's design harks back to traditional station architecture," says HS2 Project Client Ailsa Waygood.”
What is a short sentence with hark?
“"Hark ye, mistress," said the shepherd.”
What does hark mean?
Hark means to listen attentively.

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