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How to pronounce hearken in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms hark, harken
Type of listen

Examples of hearken

hearken
I read books in which men hearken to wild imperatives, and that is enough for me.
From the time.com
You don't need to hearken back to the days of Alcindor and Walton and Wooden.
From the dailynews.com
The carriages and wagons in the group hearken back to a time nearly a century past.
From the timesunion.com
Participatory in its essence, its solo sound reaches like a book to all who hearken.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
I'm going to hearken back to my earlier post on bullying and changing times.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
Current bumper-sticker and business-card uses of the fish hearken back to this practice.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The logical place would have been Tiger Stadium to really hearken back to the good old days.
From the freep.com
They hearken more closely to Calvin than do their more numerous Northern Presbyterian cousins.
From the time.com
Mr. Paul's foreign policy views hearken back to those of the old isolationists of the 1930s and 1940s.
From the washingtontimes.com
More examples
  • Hark: listen; used mostly in the imperative
  • To listen; to lend the ear; to attend or give heed to what is uttered; to hear with attention, obedience, or compliance; To hear by listening; To hear with attention; to regard
  • Verb/intransitive: To give ear, to hear attentively.
  • Listen, to pay attention, and give in.
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