harken
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- harkener noun
Example Sentences
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Easily one of 2025’s best albums, “Whiskey Lies & Alibis” by William Beckmann, released in June, harkens back to the finest country music of the 1990s while keeping a boot planted firmly in the present.
From Salon
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.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
From Los Angeles Times
So maybe you draw a line to my kind of modal baselines that kind of harken back to “A Love Supreme.”
From Los Angeles Times
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