lark
Example Sentences
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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
There was a pretty songbird labeled a snow lark and a gray-furred rodent called an alpine marmot.
From Literature
“Most observers,” Mr. Witt writes, “thought the whole situation a ridiculous lark.”
"You need to figure out who are the night owls and who are the morning larks. It is no good putting people in at the opposite end of the scale."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.