hearken
Example Sentences
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It sounded strange, like a song out of time — Melanie said she intended it to hearken to the 1930s — sung with what could now be called a warbling “indie girl voice.”
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2024
Certainly, many of the Seahawks can at least hearken back to last Oct.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2023
I'd thought that the sudden Scorsese renaissance was a case of the former: his movies are well-shot, well-acted, well-directed, and hearken back to beloved filmmaking tropes of the New Hollywood era.
From Salon • Mar. 13, 2021
But the question—posed using the phrase “such a time as this —makes Graham hearken back to the biblical tale of Esther, a queen who was made a royal for “such a time as this.”
From National Geographic • Dec. 31, 2020
“Octavian,” said he, “have any voices presented themselves to you — speaking in remote quarters — which you might not, in other seasons, hearken to?”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing hearken
"The Tell-Tale Heart," Vocabulary from the short story
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"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
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"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, Chapters 1–5
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