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• There is also fear that some hawkers may thaw the fish and sell it as fresh.1978 July 13, “Frozen fish: Fear of profiteering at 'wet' markets”, in The Straits Times, Singapore. From the entry wet market
• Only the silver dollar hawkers have kept up their professional spirits.1949 April 18, Dwight Martin, “City of Defeat”, in Time, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2013. From the entry zooty
• Belanja Eat, launched April 10, is a pay-it-forward initiative that lets you belanja (or treat) someone to a hawker meal.2020 April 19, Chelsea Kiew, Hannah Bock, “Virus Vigilantes: Doing good in trying times”, in The Straits Times, Singapore: Singapore Press…. From the entry belanja
• "People don't want to go eat out every day, and whenever you tapao home it's usually from a hawker centre.2015 September 5, Rachel Loi, quoting Stephan Zoisl, “Fine dining made easy”, in The Business Times, Singapore, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry tapao
• The food vendors, or hawkers, smiled at each other beatifically while ladling out the hot soup and meat in a bowl.2011, Edmund M. Schirmer, “Finding Home Again”, in When there were Tigers in Singapore: A Family Saga of the Japanese Occupation…. From the entry angmoh
• "Pull one of those babies out and the whole thing goes down," says Coco Vaughan, a Manzo Brothers hawker.2007 June 18, Stuart Eskenazi, “At 100 years, Pike Place Market holds fast to its character”, in The Seattle Times, archived from the…. From the entry applanche
• The hawkers' athletic contrappostos, intellectual and imaginary rather than plausible, speak of the mind's superiority to the body.2002, Sean Shesgreen, “Broadsheet Cries and British Commerce”, in Images of the Outcast: The Urban Poor in the Cries of London…. From the entry contrapposto
• The Trade Department is reluctant to introduce the sale of frozen fish in 'wet' markets for fear of profiteering by hawkers.1978 July 13, “Frozen fish: Fear of profiteering at 'wet' markets”, in The Straits Times, Singapore. From the entry wet market
• Some of the hawkers are not very cooperative.1978 October 4, Mohamed Shariff, The Straits Times, page 7. From the entry leceh
• Those who find their way through the tunnels underneath the Boardwalk to the beach are met by hawkers selling fudgies.1964 August 21, “News Analysis; Atlantic City: Yesteryear; Convention Site Bears Faded Witness To a Period of Less Urgent Worries”, in The…. From the entry fudgie
• Vendors now sell gold fish through the streets, along with hawkers of tokoroten, or sea-weed jelly, and gaily decorated wind bells.1925, The Brooklyn Museum Quarterly, volume 12, page 42. From the entry tokoroten
• Linda Sanchez (D-CA) sent SBA Administrator Isabel Guzman on Monday, questioning whether the half-dozen disinformation superspreaders—including supplement hawker Joseph Mercola and Robert F.2021 October 26, William Bredderman, “Anti-vaxxers Got $1 Million-Plus in Forgiven PPP Loans. Now Lawmakers Want Answers.”, in The Daily…. From the entry superspreader
• Because school children were forgoing food to play tikam-tikam games with their pocket money, hawkers were eventually banned from selling tikam-tikam to children.2013, Kok Yang Tan, From the Blue Windows: Recollections of Life in Queenstown, Singapore, in the 1960s and 1970s, Ridge Books, →ISBN. From the entry tikam-tikam
• However, the Prata stall owners or the push-cart hawkers selling foodstuffs like thosai and appom were mainly Malabar Muslim immigrants from Edna village in Kerala.2011, Jayati Bhattacharya, Beyond the Myth: Indian Business Communities in Singapore, page 59. From the entry appom
• This is a well known hawker.2002 March 28, “Kenya National Assembly Official Record”, in parliamentary debates. From the entry ware
• Beer hawkers should fare no better.1995, Frank Bradley, International Marketing Strategy, Prentice Hall PTR. From the entry boudin
• A male vegetable seller killed a female hawker in a fight over space at a farmer's market in Yang county, near Hanzhong , Huashang Daily reports.2014 October 11, WU NAN, “Breastfed baby gets drunk; Grandpa kills child smuggler”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the…. From the entry yang
• The “vertical kampong” that is being planned in Woodlands will bring together homes, shops, clinics, childcare and eldercare services, a hawker centre, gardens and public spaces under one roof.2013 August 17, Feng Zhengkun, “Woodlands to get "vertical kampong"”, in The Straits Times, retrieved 25 Oct 2015. From the entry vertical kampong
• The occupations of waterside work, costermongery, basketmaking, paper-bag making, of carman and puller-down, fish hawker, and such like, belong to the very humble walks of life.1905, Alexander Hay Tod, Charterhouse, page 226. From the entry costermongery

Meaning of hawker

1. noun A peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods.
2. noun Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.
3. noun A seller of food in a hawker centre.

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Questions about hawker in a sentence

How do you use hawker in a sentence?

Hawker is used as a noun. For example: “First-generation hawkers were mostly immigrants from China, and to a smaller extent from India and the Malay Archipelago.”

What is a short sentence with hawker?

“Beer hawkers should fare no better.”

What does hawker mean?

Hawker means a peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods.