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How to pronounce hark in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms harken, hearken
Type of listen

Examples of hark

hark
It's going to hark back to the 60s, with a psychedelic look, costumes and dancing.
From the guardian.co.uk
I know my history and I know the literature, and I know that to which I hark back.
From the theatlantic.com
Hark is giving her neighbors her sandbags after losing her home to the waters.
From the news-journalonline.com
And if these two teams meet in October, the Tigers won't hark back to May memories.
From the freep.com
I personally don't hark back to a halcyon age, I'm not privileged and can't meddle.
From the guardian.co.uk
Some current ads hark back to days when value was only a small part of the equation.
From the latimes.com
Yet he decorates them with delicate painted flowers that hark back to prewar design.
From the newsweek.com
He suggests that even the jokes seem to hark back to the decade of Thatcher.
From the guardian.co.uk
The next big reform ideas may hark back to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
From the businessweek.com
More examples
  • Listen; used mostly in the imperative
  • Hark is a 1985 album by clarinetist Buddy DeFranco, featuring the pianist Oscar Peterson.
  • Hark is a series of two gamebooks written by R. L. Stine. The first book is called Badlands of Hark and the second is called Invaders of Hark.
  • The Harvard Graduate Center, also known as Harkness Commons, was commissioned of The Architects Collaborative by Harvard University in 1948. ...
  • Harkness is a Scottish surname. Its etymology is probably from the Old English personal name Hereca (a derivative of the various compound names with the first element here army) plus the Old English nu00E6ss headland, cape. The name is first recorded along the Cumbrian border (1350). By the 15th century they were firmly established in Nithsdale area of Dumfriesshire...
  • "Quiet, please! Listen for hounds." Usually used at a check or other times when it is important for the huntsman and staff to be able to hear the hounds. Often directed at "coffee housers."
  • Quiet down and listen.