What's the difference between hark and yark?

Hark


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To listen; to hearken.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A lot of the problems hark back to these unscrupulous brokers who didn’t have any real interest in education.
  • (2) He said Indians today were of a new generation and were no longer nervous of such harkings-back to the past which represented no threat.” The diplomat - who went on to be Britain’s ambassador to Nepal and Afghanistan - enclosed a press cutting from the Times of India, headlined “Rushdie’s Complaint”.
  • (3) He harks back to an age when cricket was part of the country's cultural life in a way it no longer is.
  • (4) Francis Dixon, 38, from Stalybridge, was acquitted of the murder of David Short, the attempted murder of Hark and causing an explosion with a hand grenade.
  • (5) There are some, particularly younger African American activists, who blame black civil rights leaders for harking back to old traditions, rather than seeking new bridges.
  • (6) In court Cregan and Wilkinson admitted the attack but denied actively trying to murder the occupant, Sharon Hark, who the prosecution claimed belonged to a family with whom Cregan had a grievance.
  • (7) The story harked back to the county’s tobacco plantation past – but it was dominated by images of successful African Americans enjoying their yachts, golf courses and gated communities.
  • (8) Charney has long defended risque advertising and a promiscuous lifestyle, with both his design aesthetic and his sexual mores harking back to the California of the mid-1970s.
  • (9) Jermaine Ward, 24, was found guilty of the murder of David Short but cleared of the attempted murder of Hark and causing an explosion with a hand-grenade.
  • (10) Constâncio also harked back to the 1930s, when German philosopher Edmund Husserl warned that Europe faced an existential crisis that would either destroy it, or see it reborn.
  • (11) This view is underpinned by a deeper sense of historical purpose, harking back to Margaret Thatcher’s governments.
  • (12) Francis Dixon, 38, from Stalybridge, was acquitted of the murder of David Short, the attempted murder of Hark and causing an explosion with a hand-grenade.
  • (13) If the U8’s avant-garde modernism seems a good fit for the graphic designers and fashionistas that now frequent the line on their way to trendy Neukölln, other station signs still hark back to the capital’s authoritarian past.
  • (14) It harks back to a time before gay went mainstream, before Will and Grace, before Queer As Folk, before the age of gay romcoms like Adam and Steve.
  • (15) Eureka has gentrified a lot since then, but still has a colourful edge that harks back to pioneer days.
  • (16) There are banjos and harmonicas, songs harking back to the old-time tunes she grew up listening to in Golden, Texas (population: 600).
  • (17) Inside the Hark to Bounty pub in the Lancashire village of Slaidburn, I found taciturn young gamekeepers, cheeks flushed red from a day outdoors, quietly discussing their shoot by the open fire.
  • (18) The heavy-handed 'stop and search' activity outside London tube stations harks back to a period before the Lawrence inquiry and raises questions about racial profiling in immigration control."
  • (19) He was cleared of one count of the attempted murder of Sharon Hark on the same day and cleared of causing an explosion with a hand-grenade.
  • (20) I think we’re harking back to a world that probably didn’t exist.

Yark


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To yerk.

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