Example sentences for: harks

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

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

  • 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.”

  • 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!

  • Chernomyrdin's initial public comments, says the paper, harks back to Soviet times, with his suggestion of more government support for ailing industries.

  • On the other hand, a troika -- three political powers working together -- harks back to a Russian hitch of three horses abreast.


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