lark
Example Sentences
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A small subset of larks are true 5 a.m. people.
"Instead of being a morning lark you're going to become more of a night owl," Casement explained.
From Science Daily
Stoppard announced himself with “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” an absurdist lark that views “Hamlet” from the keyhole perspective of two courtiers jockeying for position in the new regime.
From Los Angeles Times
Happy as a lark, you will take the oven-warm biscuits up to your private tree house and, hungry as a horse, devour them all yourself.
From Literature
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There was a pretty songbird labeled a snow lark and a gray-furred rodent called an alpine marmot.
From Literature
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