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.”

  • According to the OED2e that term harks back to a Saxon text dating from 956 AD .

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

  • 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.

  • This statement harks back to a famous 1958 essay by the literary critic George Steiner, who asked "whether the German language had survived the Hitler era, whether words poisoned by Goebbels and used to regulate and justify Belsen could ever again serve the needs of moral truth and poetic perception."


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