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.

  • 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!

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

  • The settlement of Pirates Well harks back to the days when it was a safe outpost for ruthless gangs, but today’s population makes a living from fishing and farming.

  • 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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