harken

[hahr-kuhn]

verb (used with or without object)

1. hearken.

harken

/ ˈhɑːkən /

verb

1. a variant spelling (esp US) of hearken

Other Word Forms

• harkener noun

Example Sentences

In 1957, the Music Center was a dream, Dorothy Chandler having only begun fundraising two years earlier for an arts Olympus on a well-scrubbed Grand Avenue that would harken a new business district.

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This classic plot hook harkens back to “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “A Trip to the Moon,” and if I had to place a bet, it’s the oldest story mankind’s got.

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Most directly, “The Antidote” harkens to Eleanor Catton’s Booker award winning “The Luminaries,” which centers around the mysteries of a gold rush port town in New Zealand.

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So maybe you draw a line to my kind of modal baselines that kind of harken back to “A Love Supreme.”

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Its title, which harkens back to network sitcoms of yesteryear and wholesome themes of a family growing and learning together, feel straight out of a Norman Lear production.

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