Example sentences for: harp

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

  • Just because a man addresses a few white-supremacist organizations, is that any reason to harp on and on about it?

  • I love her mocking eggheads at jazz clubs ("I do enjoy the intelligentsia's pretending they know a horn from a harp while the musicians pretend they know a book from a bookie").

  • He has little time for those who "pity murderers (and penguins, and sea otters, and harp seals) more than fetuses."

  • A nostalgia fest for the Singing Cowboy, with obituaries declaring him a "soothing presence" (Mike Clark and David Zimmerman, USA Today ) and "that almost unimaginable thing, the domestic cowboy" (the New York Times ). Critics harp on his loyalty to wife Dale and horse Trigger and his tendency to express himself through ballads, not fisticuffs.

  • The chapter ends with three tough-on-crime quotes, all of which harp on this theme.


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