Example sentences for: hawkes

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

  • The term "Post-Modernism" turns up again and again in these essays and interviews, and it comes as a surprise to find it applied a quarter-century ago, not to metareferences in knowing television serials but to the work of Barthelme and his coevals John Barth, John Hawkes, Robert Coover, William Gass, etc.

  • The best overview of Gourniá — excavated by American Harriet Boyd Hawkes in the early 1900s — is from the main road as it rises beyond the archaeological site.

  • One enterprising instrument maker, Boosey & Hawkes, has devised a way to deal with the problem: Make the precious wood stretch further.

  • The editors seem to know good writing when they see it: Novelist John Hawkes makes an unexpected appearance with a new introduction to The Passion Artist , and Poppy Z. Brite has a touching fantasy of John Lennon and Paul McCartney holding more than each other's hands.

  • If we keep our options open and learn to better utilize the reservoirs of natural variation that have been preserved in our gene banks and in the few remaining in situ populations of wild species and landrace varieties, an almost infinite array of novelty can be achieved using traditional, time-proven practices involving crossing and selection of genes that have withstood the test of evolutionary time (Burbank 1914; Hawkes 1958; Rick 1967; Harlan 1975, 1976; Peloquin 1983).


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