Explore Hark through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like harken or hearken. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Hark in a sentence
Related words
Hark meaning
To listen attentively.
Using Hark
- The main meaning on this page is: To listen attentively.
- Useful related words include: harken, hearken, listen.
- In the example corpus, hark often appears in combinations such as: hark back, hark the, hark hark.
Context around Hark
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 1 questions, 2 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hark
- In this selection, "hark" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, aria, proposals, comments and argue stand out and add context to how "hark" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a hymn hark how all and aria hark hark. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hark" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hark
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The best known was originally entitled "Hark! (7 words)
Among them was Hark the Herald Angels Sing. (8 words)
Does the work hark back to a simpler, less confusing time? (11 words)
Author of a hugely successful memoir One Hell Of A Life, Capt. Blackford is 100 years old, and that may lead you to assume that he would often hark back to those good old days when books tumbled out of printing presses, and didn’t pop up on screens. (49 words)
This is reflected in his development of interlocking cycles which hark back to the origins of fantasy in myth and medieval cycles (see "Wizardry and Wild Romance – Moorcock" & "Death Is No Obstacle – Colin Greenland" for more commentary). (37 words)
Kalu’s comments hark back to the post-civil war era when former military ruler Yakubu Gowon launched the “three Rs” programme—reconstruction, rehabilitation, and reintegration—to heal the nation following the civil war. (34 words)
Does the work hark back to a simpler, less confusing time? (11 words)
This work was produced at Covent Garden Theatre, on March 23, 1748, and to the aria Hark! hark! (18 words)
The best known was originally entitled "Hark! (7 words)
Example sentences (18)
This work was produced at Covent Garden Theatre, on March 23, 1748, and to the aria Hark! hark!
Critics say the proposals hark back to racist laws from the early 1900s preventing Asian Americans from owning land, homes and other buildings.
In other words, organizational forms, which hark back to what you might call the democratic socialism before 1989.
Kalu’s comments hark back to the post-civil war era when former military ruler Yakubu Gowon launched the “three Rs” programme—reconstruction, rehabilitation, and reintegration—to heal the nation following the civil war.
Author of a hugely successful memoir One Hell Of A Life, Capt. Blackford is 100 years old, and that may lead you to assume that he would often hark back to those good old days when books tumbled out of printing presses, and didn’t pop up on screens.
Plunge into the wild world of '80s Hong Kong action movies in Tsui Hark's kid flick full of "flying swordsmen, ice maidens, wizard monks and the infamous Blood Demon," plus lots of lasers.
Researchers, like Hark, argue that the books were a way to honor individuals who may not have survived but still contributed to medicine.
She decided to leave the ceiling unpainted to hark back to the beams in the main house.
Among them was Hark the Herald Angels Sing.
As for us, a quick Twelve Days of Christmas and Hark the Herald, and we were off with plenty good cheer.
Does the work hark back to a simpler, less confusing time?
HARK is the only organization providing care for dogs in the Haines Borough.
They have witnessed the results of rugby going professional and how it became so focussed around money, whereas they want to try and hark back to those amateur values of the GAA.
Hindemith ’s concertos hark back to the forms of the 19th century, even if the harmonic language which he used was different.
In 1739, Charles Wesley composed a hymn, "Hark, how all the welkin rings”.
Many definitions of essence hark back to the ancient Greek hylomorphic understanding of the formation of the things of this world.
The best known was originally entitled "Hark!
This is reflected in his development of interlocking cycles which hark back to the origins of fantasy in myth and medieval cycles (see "Wizardry and Wild Romance – Moorcock" & "Death Is No Obstacle – Colin Greenland" for more commentary).
Common combinations with hark
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: