How to Use hawk in a Sentence

hawk

1 of 2 noun

• The hawk, named Tahoe, had been a part of the zoo's wildlife theater for more than 20 years.
  — CBS News, 20 Jan. 2023
• Joseph is a ball-hawk with the ball skills of a wide receiver.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2022
• Shires is coy about whether the design on her arm depicts the hawk, as in, the pursuer, or the dove.
  — Jewly Height, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2022
• Finally, the hawk wrestled the snake off her arm and flew away.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
• In one scene, the Please Don’t Destroy boys are chased by a hawk while traversing rocks.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 17 Nov. 2023
• At the time of his ouster, the hawks of the league saw someone who was on the inside of the game – someone with skin in it – would be part of the change.
  — Maury Brown, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• The highlight for the group was a cooper's hawk perched on a branch and superbly camouflaged in the browns and tans of the marsh.
  — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2022
• An oasis for all Robert and Eva have seen robins, doves, owls, and even hawks in and around their garden.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 25 May 2023
• How much talk can a Fed speaker squawk if a Fed speaker can squawk like a hawk?
  — Tracy Alloway, Bloomberg.com, 13 Oct. 2022
• Behind the bleachers, a hawk swooped down and picked up a duckling from a group of 10-12 babies.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 14 May 2023
• The bill that fiscal hawks have been warning about will come due in the near future if no changes are made.
  — The Editors, National Review, 3 Aug. 2023
• Burns said birders could spot over 100 hawks in the Anza-Borrego Desert each day.
  — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024
• Lottie feels like the key to many of the central mysteries, and her every move will need to be watched like a hawk.
  — Radhika Menon, ELLE, 23 Mar. 2023
• The smaller of the two hawks died earlier in June, but the other hawk remains alive and under the care of the adult eagles.
  — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
• Buck is a fiscal hawk from Colorado and a member of the Freedom Caucus.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023
• As the snake and the hawk fought one another, Jones was on the receiving end of both animals’ blows.
  — Outdoor Life, 9 Aug. 2023
• Someone trusted me with Joyce, a six-year-old Harris hawk.
  — Lisa Niver, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2023
• The researchers placed one of the birds in front of a mirror and projected a silhouette of a hawk flying above it.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
• Sporting a faux hawk and metal chain, Isaiah would now be a Jones-Robertson.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 19 Nov. 2022
• Similarly, many hawks and falcons aren’t large enough to lift a pet.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2023
• In one of the better videos on the internet this week, a hungry hawk gets in a fight with a defensive mother hen.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 28 Feb. 2024
• Jamie grew out the ‘hawk, gathered his finest jerseys and high school equipment, and adopted his persona as his full-time line of work.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2023
• This also explains why small wild ones wouldn’t last long with bigger fish, otters, mink, and hawks about.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2023
• As their star wanes, a new generation of hawks is rising.
  — Tatiana Stanovaya, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
• The horned lizard has an arsenal of natural predators, from birds of prey, like hawks, to canines, like wolves and dogs.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
• The concept of falconry may bring to mind a Mongolian warrior watching a hawk soar across the steppe.
  — Michael Charboneau, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• Budget cuts at the Pentagon are all but verboten in even fiscal hawks’ dens.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 6 July 2023
• White doesn’t recommend putting them in trees since that could give predators, such as owls and hawks, easier access to the bats.
  — Lauren David, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• Most of all, Stonecipher was a hawk on raising shareholder value and pushing down costs.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024
• The two were friends and were both defense hawks, advocating for a muscular U.S. posture abroad.
  — Melissa Gaffney, ABC News, 27 Mar. 2024

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hawk

2 of 2 verb

• Chui Lo Ko came up with an idea to cook beef steak with soy sauce and hawk his food on the street.
  — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 3 Nov. 2022
• Tourist shops hawk his figurine alongside that of the pope.
  — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2020
• On eBay, sellers are hawking the $6 box for $100—or more.
  — Suryatapa Bhattacharya, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2023
• There’s a long history of dudes in the West putting up tents to hawk crap to other dudes.
  — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
• But no one had a plan for where the 50 or so vendors who had been hawking there for years would go.
  — Curbed, 11 Jan. 2024
• In February 2004, the couple teamed up to hawk the giant rock.
  — Amanda Michelle Steiner, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2022
• The piragüeros really did park their carts on the sidewalk to hawk their flavors of the day.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 10 June 2021
• Trump merchandise was hawked in front of the Reagan Library sign.
  — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• There was no product to hawk, no photograph to admire, no movie-star name in lights.
  — Time, 21 May 2021
• Of course, this is just capitalism itself: Create a need or a fear, and hawk the solution for that need or fear.
  — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2020
• In all, at least a quarter of the channels appear to be hawking more than just abortifacients.
  — WIRED, 23 June 2023
• Her parents on Monday were farther down the route, also hawking hot dogs.
  — Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2024
• In another scene, an equally diverse group of merchants hawk their wares as Haakon walks Freydís through the city.
  — David M. Perry, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2022
• Teenagers in Lagos hawk cellphone chargers in rush-hour traffic.
  — Lynsey Chutel Gulshan Khan, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• Yes, Ben Affleck finally agreed to hawk Dunkin’ for real.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
• These policies are fantastic sources of easy revenue for the retailers that hawk them.
  — Kevin Brasler, Star Tribune, 6 Feb. 2021
• Christy isn’t sure whether La Madera members will sell the peppers back to Small Axe and keep the money, or take the hot sauce as compensation and hawk it at events and local stores.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021
• In addition, more than 20 vendors will hawk their wares at the Court Street Market flea on the plaza, which will be closed to traffic all day Saturday.
  — Randy Tucker, The Enquirer, 2 June 2021
• Vendors hawk shoreside trips and rows of buses stand ready to whisk visitors away, with many headed for the area’s crown jewel: the Mendenhall Glacier.
  — Becky Bohrer, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
• One booth is hawking Wagyu beef jerky, another wants to introduce you to gochujang cheese.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
• Hermione’s clever spell causes Draco Malfoy to hawk up a gusher of flaming loogies.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2020
• Instead, all meals are made to order—even in the food hall, where stalls hawk everything from sushi to salads—helping reduce waste and handling.
  — Corina Quinn, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2020
• Some market carts — hawking dates, bananas and figs — are fitted with awnings and trimmed in fringe, the donkeys in beaded harnesses.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• At his lowest point, he was reduced to walking the streets of New York City, hawking pamphlets about his idea and asking to speak with anyone who’d listen.
  — Amy Brady, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2023
• Peddlers weave through the throng hawking rain cover in summer and plastic cushions in winter.
  — Choe Sang-Hun Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• In the meantime, hackers began hawking data that appeared to be taken from a million or more 23andMe users.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2023
• Some brands have been early to the party, like Benefit and the fashion retailer Revolve, but many have been more hesitant to hawk their wares on the app.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2024
• Soon, she’s released back on the streets of Harlem, hawking her services as a hairstylist and desperately trying to stay out of the shelter.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• Locals were gathering salt to hawk to passing cod-fishing traders from Newfoundland and New England, who used it to stop shipboard meat from rotting too quickly.
  — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• Arab governments should shut down websites hawking synthetic drugs, driving users onto the Dark Web, where fewer will be able to locate sellers.
  — Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024