ark

Example Sentences

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Unassuming from the outside, the shop opens into a huge ark of mortar-crusted brick and ribcage-like beams, with long dining tables displaying shapely vases, pitchers, teacups and plates in shades of apricot, amber and malachite.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Our little makeshift ark hadn’t washed away in the night lagoon, much to our collective relief.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

Let me explain, and at the risk of coming across like a guy building an ark in the desert, offer options for adding dividends at a time of relative scarcity.

From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025

"The work we are doing, and zoos around Europe are doing, is really to be that lifeboat, to be that ark population."

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2025

Past Miss Throckmorton's, the village hall floated in the arctic dark, a lit-up ark.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell