Example sentences for: hawk

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

  • But last autumn's dove became a hawk again this spring.

  • All you need, apparently, is a lathe, a sharp knife, a band saw (not to be confused with a hawk), manual dexterity, dedication, and the requisite amount of the higher lunacy (though, like Hamlet, Arnold is but mad northnorth-west), and you too could say: I can do that.

  • Only an etymologist today would be expected to know of the kite/hawk kinship , and only he is able to see a kite in a spring sky and appreciate it as the hawk it once was.

  • Hustling, bustling peasants hawk the rich harvest of the surrounding farming country: cabbages and oranges, eggs and live chickens (they are weighed while flapping), river fish and squirming eels, and table after table of the most fragrant spices, while stalls and hole-in-the-wall cafés heat up the city’s number-one dish, the Sichuan hotpot.

  • Book-- Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War , by Mark Bowden.


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