hark
verb (used without object)
to listen attentively; hearken.
had harked
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past perfectof hark.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Her mind, strung now to concert pitch, had harked back to the point it had reached some time ago, and which all the recent distractions had momentarily obliterated.
From The Bat by Hopwood, Avery
Marjorie’s 132 mind had harked back to the memory of the cloud that had once shadowed hers and Mary Raymond’s friendship.
From Marjorie Dean High School Senior by Chase, Josephine
This, though, was after I had harked back to the days of my adolescence.
From One Third Off by Sarg, Tony
Julia had harked back to that first year in which the young Kerrs had chanted together: "Marriage is the only life."
From Married Life The True Romance by Edginton, May
A true Ardayre, of course—they would say that it had harked back, perhaps, to that Elizabethan Denzil whom his father had told him was his exact portrait in the picture gallery at Ardayre.
From The Price of Things by Glyn, Elinor
