Explore Hearkening through 7 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Hearkening meaning
present participle and gerund of hearken
Using Hearkening
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of hearken
- In the example corpus, hearkening often appears in combinations such as: hearkening back, hearkening to.
Context around Hearkening
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 4 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hearkening
- In this selection, "hearkening" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, assignments and geometry stand out and add context to how "hearkening" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include hearkening back to and after all hearkening back to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hearkening" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hearkening
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It is, after all, hearkening back to a time that didn’t have either phone or internet at all. (19 words)
Some modern code still contains what appear to be underscores acting as assignments, hearkening back to this original usage. (19 words)
Gathering around the dominant tribes among them and hearkening to the most charismatic leaders brought the various "barbarians" tribes closer together. (21 words)
Hearkening back to the traditions of his Italian roots, Tony brought his daughter and son Mario, who manages the vineyards, into the fold and trained them to carry on his dream. (31 words)
Hearkening back to the days before television, when families sat around the radio tuned in for news and entertainment, live-radio-theater style theater is just plain fun! (28 words)
The considerations above reveal the origin of the gammas in geometry, hearkening back to Grassmann's original motivation – they represent a fixed basis of unit vectors in spacetime. (28 words)
Hearkening back to the days before television, when families sat around the radio tuned in for news and entertainment, live-radio-theater style theater is just plain fun! (28 words)
Example sentences (7)
Okorafor noted that the coalition thanked the donors for hearkening to the clarion call championed by the CBN and the private sector.
Hearkening back to the days before television, when families sat around the radio tuned in for news and entertainment, live-radio-theater style theater is just plain fun!
Hearkening back to the traditions of his Italian roots, Tony brought his daughter and son Mario, who manages the vineyards, into the fold and trained them to carry on his dream.
It is, after all, hearkening back to a time that didn’t have either phone or internet at all.
Gathering around the dominant tribes among them and hearkening to the most charismatic leaders brought the various "barbarians" tribes closer together.
Some modern code still contains what appear to be underscores acting as assignments, hearkening back to this original usage.
The considerations above reveal the origin of the gammas in geometry, hearkening back to Grassmann's original motivation – they represent a fixed basis of unit vectors in spacetime.
Common combinations with hearkening
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- hearkening back 6×
- hearkening to 2×