Example Sentences

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Now most everyone in the art world is divided over whether the story is plausible or a larksome prank.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2020

Vega’s work is at once larksome and deep.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2019

The Nixon drawings share some of the vocabulary of the late Guston paintings, but have a larksome quality all their own.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2016

What’s striking, though, is that the idea of sleeping on the subway seemed then, as it did in Clark’s song, larksome and big-hearted—something that you chose to do.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 10, 2016

The gay, larksome light fled from his eyes, his face grew stern and sometimes forbidding.

From Quill's Window by McCutcheon, George Barr