hark
verb (used without object)
to listen attentively; hearken.
is harking
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present progressiveof hark (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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In selecting the name Peacock, NBCUniversal is harking back to its roots as America’s broadcast pioneer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2019
What we are not doing is harking back to a bygone era.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2011
Nostalgia both long and short is a recurring theme in Jerusalem, and here Ginger is harking back to the halcyon days of publicly owned bus services.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2010
But does that mean fashion is harking back to the '60s?
From Time Magazine Archive
And when he refers to the "coma, colum, perydus," he is harking back to the classical divisions of the rhythmical members of a sentence: the "comma, colon, et periodus."
From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Clark, Donald Lemen
