How to Use hawker in a Sentence
hawker
noun-
This hawker races into the store, finds a Bengals hat and asks for $10.
— The Enquirer, 2 June 2022 -
The Western Barbeque hawker stall was founded in the 1970s.
— Faris Mustafa, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2021 -
Who needs a hawker when his Instagram posts and TikTok videos bring in millions of views a day?
— Corey Kilgannon Dar Yaskil, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023 -
Its hawker is a loud, bold and shameless salesman, his stock is endless, and the streets eat it like pigeons and popcorn, all day e’ry day.
— Jonathan Rowe, Spin, 11 Aug. 2023 -
Everyone is doing something—the flower seller, the street hawker at the vegetable stalls, the rickshaw puller.
— Chadner Navarro, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2021 -
The north wall is covered in a giant photograph of a hawker center in Singapore.
— Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022 -
Within hawker centers and restaurants, tables will have to be kept at least one meter apart and limited to no more than five people in phase two.
— Philip Heijmans, Bloomberg.com, 1 June 2020 -
In that vision of the future, a big solar company like Sunrun might look less like a hawker of panels and more like a new breed of electric utility.
— Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 8 July 2020 -
The data hawker, who, Bermudez said, agreed to meet at a Denver coffee shop, claimed to have a trove of information showing priests using dating apps.
— Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2021 -
The woman, Mirta Kuzmana, is perhaps the only female hawker there.
— Corey Kilgannon Dar Yaskil, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023 -
There are fishmongers and queso fresco vendors and a newspaper hawker and kids playing hide-and-seek and other games, and, in the center of the commotion, a cow that’s parked itself near the church door.
— Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2021 -
Any vendor selling merchandise in Boston is required to have a hawkers and peddlers license.
— Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023 -
On the sidewalk, Hasidic diamond dealers haggle on flip phones while groups of men smoke and banter in various languages and hawkers try to lure passers-by into showrooms.
— Corey Kilgannon Dar Yaskil, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023 -
The story, which has already been adapted several times as live-action features, tells the story of the bond between a 6-year-old girl from Kolkata, India, and an immigrant hawker from Kabul, Afghanistan.
— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 May 2022 -
But for Gebert himself, the news was far from catastrophic for his career as a hawker of white nationalist propaganda.
— Hannah Gais, The New Republic, 18 May 2021 -
Its famous hawker centres are cities in themselves, where rows upon rows of vendors sell a mind-melting variety of dishes: from fish head curry to wonton noodle soup.
— Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 4 June 2020 -
Adelson, born to immigrant parents and raised in a poor section of Boston, showed early entrepreneurial flair as a hawker of newspapers on a street corner as a teen.
— Russell Flannery, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021 -
And there is, perhaps, no greater source of social activity in Singapore than its hawker centers, the island's ubiquitous cooked food markets.
— Oscar Holland, CNN, 13 Oct. 2022 -
Known for: tacky linens hawker; promoter of insane Big Lie conspiracies; also named in Dominion lawsuit.
— Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2021 -
The inscription recognizes the diverse dishes served by hawkers at their individual stalls in hawker centers as well as the important role these centers play as social hubs for all ages and ethnicities.
— Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2020 -
This hawker races into the store, finds a Bengals hat and asks for $10.
— The Enquirer, 2 June 2022 -
The Western Barbeque hawker stall was founded in the 1970s.
— Faris Mustafa, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2021 -
Who needs a hawker when his Instagram posts and TikTok videos bring in millions of views a day?
— Corey Kilgannon Dar Yaskil, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023 -
Its hawker is a loud, bold and shameless salesman, his stock is endless, and the streets eat it like pigeons and popcorn, all day e’ry day.
— Jonathan Rowe, Spin, 11 Aug. 2023 -
Everyone is doing something—the flower seller, the street hawker at the vegetable stalls, the rickshaw puller.
— Chadner Navarro, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2021 -
The north wall is covered in a giant photograph of a hawker center in Singapore.
— Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022 -
Within hawker centers and restaurants, tables will have to be kept at least one meter apart and limited to no more than five people in phase two.
— Philip Heijmans, Bloomberg.com, 1 June 2020 -
In that vision of the future, a big solar company like Sunrun might look less like a hawker of panels and more like a new breed of electric utility.
— Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 8 July 2020 -
The data hawker, who, Bermudez said, agreed to meet at a Denver coffee shop, claimed to have a trove of information showing priests using dating apps.
— Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2021 -
The woman, Mirta Kuzmana, is perhaps the only female hawker there.
— Corey Kilgannon Dar Yaskil, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
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