(n.) Any one numerous species of singing birds of the genus Alauda and allied genera (family Alaudidae). They mostly belong to Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. In America they are represented by the shore larks, or horned by the shore larks, or horned larks, of the genus Otocoris. The true larks have holaspidean tarsi, very long hind claws, and usually, dull, sandy brown colors.
(v. i.) To catch larks; as, to go larking.
Example Sentences:
(1) Owls were more hypnotizable than larks in the morning, and larks were also significantly more hypnotizable in the evening than owls.
(2) The three young men were trying to get to grips with a troubling scene in which they lark about with a baby in its pram, poking it, pulling off its nappy, goading each other until they stone it to death.
(3) Imitating the white, vaudeville television love-to-hate wrestler Gorgeous George, his forecasts bragged the precise round he was going to win, sometimes combining such box-office larks with couplets of doggerel.
(4) Explaining why they continue to increase the size of the UN consolidated appeal each year, despite not acheiving full funding year-on-year, Larke said: “We base our ask on the real needs we assess, not on the money we expect to get - to do so the other way round would be dishonest.
(5) This is Ferguson in his element, larking about with a world-class footballer whose development he has overseen from the star's late teenage years.
(6) Lacking self-confidence and plagued by ill-health, she was hospitalised several times during the 1950s, and took failure hard, blaming herself in particular for the lack of success of Jean Anouilh's The Lark, in which she starred as St Joan in 1955.
(7) I look at my Instagram the week before [the tweets], and I was happy as a lark.
(8) And all three looked as if they were ready to Snapchat their larking pose to all their schoolfriends.
(9) It’s not just readers who nonetheless see North Korea as a bit of a lark.
(10) Someone suggested speaking to a newsagent in Lark Lane, others a supermarket in Lodge Lane that reflects the multi-ethnic nature of Toxteth.
(11) Thinking it was quite a lark we joined in and the ensuing 10-minute interval on the hallowed turf was a carnival atmosphere with much fun had by all, the highlight being the conga lines dancing to the chant of 'Bulstrode is a wanker'.
(12) We see the upturned faces of the soldiers as they look for the larks in one of Rosenberg's most famous poems, "Returning, We Hear the Larks".
(13) Studies of Maaløe, Lark, and others with amino acid- and thymine-starved cultures revealed successive steps in the biosynthesis of Escherichia coli chromosomes.
(14) Among the rareties: ivory gull, sharp-tailed sandpiper, lark sparrow and warblers from every corner of the western hemisphere.
(15) Ah, another opportunity for Hairy Dave to lark about the dancefloor in a comedy fashion.
(16) It’s quite probable that a large number of these “signatures” are some combination of a lark and the same yahoos signing multiple times.
(17) * A soft siffle, high in the air like a distant lark, or the note of a penny whistle, faint and falling.
(18) Then Antiques Roadshow drew 6.92 million (26.4%) in the next hour, while Lark Rise to Candleford had 6.31 million (23%) in the 8pm hour.
(19) I fantasise that maybe one of those people will read the article and think "I'm going to give this gaming lark a try" and that they will buy a console on their way home from work, and that it'll change their life for the better.
(20) Seemingly spontaneous holiday larks abound; we're one puddle of purple vomit away from the dream Brits abroad weekend.
Rollick
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Managers get furious rollickings should they not 'get out the cheque book' during the transfer window, more so if they 'only' buy an English player.
(2) Republican debate: Las Vegas fight night was rollicking from start to finish Read more Paul was not the only candidate to be demoted to the undercard debate.
(3) A rollicking maritime adventure movie about the mysterious Captain Nemo and his submarine the Nautilus, the original 20,000 Leagues featured Douglas alongside James Mason as Nemo.
(4) 62 min: Belhadj rollicks down the left again and delivers a fine cross, which Bocanegra clears at a stretch.
(5) Following that came the superior Tommy Heavenly6, for which she adopted a goth-lite style and made rollicking 90s-style alt-rock.
(6) The low rectangular houses being built at Old Sarum are based on hut sites excavated by Prof Mike Parker Pearson a few miles from Stonehenge, at Durrington Walls, which he believes were occupied by the monument builders and also the scene of great mid-winter and mid-summer feasts that lasted for rollicking days and nights.
(7) As for Serena’s great rival, Sharapova, she was seen off by Kerber in a rollicking fourth-round match on a sun-dappled, cabriolet Centre Court: 7-6, 4-6, 6-4.
(8) Relations between the two, always fractious, probably weren't helped by the publication last year of Richards's rollicking autobiography, Life , in which he claimed – among other things – that Jagger was "unbearable" and in possession of "a tiny todger… he's got an enormous pair of balls – but it doesn't quite fill the gap".
(9) The morning is so pallid that the only colour seems to come from his collection of rollicking abstract paintings by Gillian Ayres .
(10) A rollicking playboy type himself, Buss was instrumental in turning the Lakers into Los Angeles's team, complete with an aura of glitz and glamor.
(11) Pacquiao reclaimed the welterweight title he surrendered amid controversy to Bradley two years ago, rectifying one of the most mystifying decisions in boxing history with a clinical points victory before 15,601 rollicking fans.
(12) 8.36pm BST Half-time: It's been rollicking fare so far and that Commons goal was the perfect tee-up for an explosive second period.
(13) But you have seen nothing like it before.” Eubank Sr is in rollicking form and it feels like the old days as he regales me with tales of darkness and destruction – in the tortuously modulated manner of a fighter once famous for wearing jodhpurs and a monocle.
(14) Germany 's service sector is growing steadily, with a PMI of 54.7 (down from January's rollicking 55.7, though).
(15) In 1970 they reached No 12 with the rollicking single Down the Dustpipe, but the ensuing albums Ma Kelly’s Greasy Spoon (1970) and Dog of Two Head (1971), their first without Lynes, were unsuccessful.
(16) In one case his features would be set in a brooding scowl of powerful, almost somnolent, determination; at another moment he resembled a rollicking cherubic schoolboy.
(17) Trump counters misogyny allegations by saying Fiorina has a 'beautiful face' Read more With the mood swinging from a rollicking family argument to uncomfortably personal confrontation to shared disdain for liberals, the debate showcased a race with an unusual number of candidates from unusually diverse backgrounds making creative plays for the Republican base.
(18) Over a rollicking accordion line, it narrates how Atillano is captured by the Mexican army, and tortured until he agrees to fly them to the cartel's secret landing strip.
(19) Ben Cort's witty and vibrant illustrations are the perfect match for Claire Freedman's rollicking text.
(20) I have a feeling up in the actual venue is quite rollicking but we've just been told to "keep the volume at a sensible limit".