Example sentences for: hearkening

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

  • While Celebration promotes itself as a model for American innocence, hearkening back to the way we were pre-1940, before we were so corrupted by the highway and the suburb, Fernandina Beach was literally (and literarily) the model for another and more cautionary rendition of that same '40s ur-village.

  • Pan-Arabists sought to unify all Arabs across the artificial borders drawn by the Western empires, hearkening back to the glorious Arab caliphates.

  • His ocular observations were in a qualitative vein, hearkening back to Aristotelian science rather than forward to Newton.

  • Anheuser-Busch, hearkening back to the aviation prizes of the '20s, has ponied up $1 million for the first person to circumnavigate by 1999 (half for the balloonist, half for the charity of his choice).


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