Example sentences for: harks

How can you use “harks” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In his choice of words, King harks back to Lincoln, who recognized our commitment to the proposition that all men are created equal but hoped that the emancipation would generate “a new birth of freedom.”

  • It occupies a giant glass box and so obviously harks back to the geometric forms of the Minimalist movement of the '70s.

  • The whole conception of "the intellectual life" feels dated: The film is set in the future, but its grasp of male-female relations harks back to the 1950s, or earlier.

  • The movie "has, like the killing-machine beast itself, the brutal efficiency of single-mindedness" (Terrence Rafferty, The New Yorker ). Voight's overwrought performance has a "kitschy glory" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). It all harks back to the "kind of retro, eek!

  • But swale as a verb harks back to English usage of an early age.


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