Example sentences for: hawked

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

  • A local attempt to keep alive its centuries-old lace-making legacy continues, though much of what’s hawked is machine-made in China.

  • Obituaries of the author of Naked Lunch highlight his importance as a countercultural role model, calling him "the non-conformist's non-conformist" (the Boston Globe ) who "inspired a who's who of pop culture" ( USA Today ). They dwell on the artists (Beats, punk rockers) who embraced Burroughs as a guru, and retell bizarre anecdotes from his life (he shot his wife accidentally, slept with little boys, and hawked his typewriter to buy heroin).

  • Worse yet, many HIV-infected people viewed the drug as a worthless poison being hawked by researchers who were on the take from a greedy pharmaceutical company.

  • The prescription skin cream Renova is hawked for wrinkles.

  • ' Phlegm eventually came to refer to mucus (1662) and to be hawked (1604) from the sinuses or lungs of people with respiratory tract irritation or infection.


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