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How to use hawk in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Hawk means a diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle. Example: “It is illegal to hunt hawks or other raptors in many parts of the world.”

Examples of hawk by meaning

nounA diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.

  • It is illegal to hunt hawks or other raptors in many parts of the world.

nounAn advocate of aggressive political positions and actions.

  • A hawk by nature, Ellenborough strongly favoured presenting St Petersburg with an ultimatum warning that any further incursions into Persia would be regarded as a hostile act.1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 106
  • “Everybody knows who were the hawks and who were the doves,” Bundy told the ExComm on the morning of October 28, after Khrushchev announced that he was withdrawing his missiles.2012 October 11 [1962], Michael Dobbs, quoting McGeorge Bundy, “The original hawks and doves”, in Foreign Policy
  • President Donald Trump has spent years playing the role of a China hawk.2019, “The World in 2020”, in The Economist

nounCold, sharp or biting wind.

  • I wanna learn by Ruby's birthday party." Pride turned up his collar against the hawk blowing from the river."2007 December 1, Gay G. Gunn, Pride and Joi, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 47

verbTo hunt with a hawk.

  • He rode astride while hawking; she falconed in the ladylike position of sidesaddle.2003, Brenda Joyce, House of Dreams, page 175

verbTo make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.

  • to hawk at flies
  • Dollarbirds hawk from high bare branches.1999, Simpson and Day, The Birds of Australia, page 366

verbTo sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to...

  • The vendors were hawking their wares from little tables lining either side of the market square.

nounA noisy effort to force up phlegm from the throat.

  • The man gave a rattling hawk in his throat and spat directly between Bond and Leiter.1954, Ian Fleming, “Death of a Pelican”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 139

verbTo expectorate, to cough up (something, such as mucus) from one's throat; to produce (something) by coughing or...

  • to hawk a loogie
  • He had a new tough manner of pulling down breath and hawking into the street.1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter III, in The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC

More sentences with hawk

  • I was reading about chickens, and I guess I learned about hawks through osmosis.From the entry osmosis
  • My editorial angered both the jingoistic war hawks and the anti-war protesters.From the entry jingoistic
  • An Argus-eyed hawk can pick out a mouse from half a mile up.From the entry Argus-eyed
  • The quick-sighted hawk saw the small mouse from a great height.From the entry quick-sighted
  • If you find one you like, plan to guard it like a hawk until the purchase is finalized.From the entry like a hawk
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:climate hawk.From the entry climate hawk
  • "Look! There's a hawk!" He pointed Heavenward in excitement.From the entry heavenward
  • The hawk settled on a branch.From the entry settle
  • Passage red-tailed hawks are preferred by falconers because these younger birds have not yet developed the adult behaviors which would make them more difficult to train.From the entry passage
  • Do you guys think that he hawk tuahs with plasma breath???2024 August 16, @SuuphuhSouphuh, “Archived copy”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2024. From the entry hawk tuah
  • Not far away, the hawks were dragging people off boats and out of the water.2021 January 19, M. A. Carrick, The Mask of Mirrors, Orbit, →ISBN. From the entry skiffer
  • Vought, a budget hawk and former conservative activist, still has to be confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate.2020 March 18, Bobby Allyn, “Trump Picks Budget Hawk Russ Vought As OMB Director As Coronavirus Crashes Economy”, in NPR. From the entry budget hawk
  • There was a boil of hawks that lived in a nearby tree.2014, Jeff Townsend, The Path of the Hawk, Balboa Press AU. From the entry boil
  • A red-tailed hawk swooped down into a stand of prickly pears in a “wasty” moonscape.2013, Alex Shoumatoff, Legends of the American Desert. From the entry wasty
  • Groups of hawks all spiraling on the same thermal are called kettles.2012, Laur Erickson, Betsy Bowen, Hawk Ridge, University of Minnesota Press, page 3. From the entry kettle
  • George wore the expression he saved for barn rats and chicken hawks.2006, Roger Alan Skipper, Tear Down the Mountain: An Appalachian Love Story, →ISBN. From the entry rootch
  • Look out, too, for the hawks that turn up to pick off an easy meal of batmeat.2004, Thailand, Malaysia & Singapore: The Budget Travel Guide, page 413. From the entry batmeat
  • He's a fracking hawk the likes of which Hopkins never imagined — he's a blue darter.1991, James Whitehead, Joiner, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry fracking
  • They are shot, taken by hawks, blown down in storms or trapped by other pigeon keepers.1962, Mervin F. Roberts, How to Raise & Train Pigeons, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry homer man
  • The hawk no longer darts forth from the gauntlet to soar through the air for his prey.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 40. From the entry gauntlet
  • Hawks, falcons and other raptors share traits that make them formidable hunters.1946, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Wildlife in North Carolina, N. C. Wildlife Resources Commission, page 28. From the entry midair
  • A hawk came swooping down near tree-level to be immediately assailed by screeching pee-wits.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 107. From the entry peewit
  • The hawk, foul murderer of defenceless birds, has sighted the chicken on the bare patch.1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 95. From the entry defenceless
  • Some sneakingly fly watching, as the hawk; Or, as a Cuckoo, grow to limb as a gawk.1910, John Bunyan Robinson, Bird Or Feather Convention ..., page 11. From the entry gawk
  • The hawk had mounted its thermal by the time he got to the yard, flapping its wings violently against the updraft.2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 91. From the entry thermal
  • A bird called above, and Baru, remembering old habit, thinking of Taranoke, made a note in her census: one hawk.2015 September 15, Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Tor Books, page 327. From the entry scintillescent
  • A boil of hawks darted above me.2011, Christopher G. Kennedy, “Post-Romantic Post-Mortem”, in Ennui Prophet, BOA Editions, Ltd., →ISBN, page 49. From the entry boil
  • Hawk ate it, and ate it again and again, and failed four times before regulation time ran out.2011, Ben Marcus, The Skateboard: The Good, the Rad, and the Gnarly, page 233. From the entry amped

Meaning of hawk

  1. noun A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.
  2. noun Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon.
  3. noun Any of various species of dragonfly of the genera Apocordulia and Austrocordulia, endemic to Australia.

Full definition of hawk

Questions about hawk in a sentence

How do you use hawk in a sentence?
Hawk is used as a noun and verb. For example: “It is illegal to hunt hawks or other raptors in many parts of the world.”
What is a short sentence with hawk?
“to hawk a loogie”
What does hawk mean?
Hawk means a diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.

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