Example sentences for: harp

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

  • There are compelling grotesqueries--"The Fatal Flower Garden," by Nelstone's Hawaiians--and items of ineffable grandeur, such as the hymn "," by the Alabama Sacred Harp Singers.

  • Dwindling cod populations in the waters off Newfoundland inspired the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans to raise annual hunt quotas on harp and hooded seals to 275,000.

  • The most obscure events are found easily: Two minutes of surfing turned up a gastronomical walking tour of Chinatown, a place to rent boats for a lunch-hour sail, and a recitation of Beowulf , accompanied by medieval harp.

  • 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").

  • And so my natural tendency is going to be to harp on what he's done wrong rather than what he's done right.


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