How to Use lark in a Sentence

lark

noun
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  • What started as a lark 13 months ago is now his life’s work.
    — M.t. Richards, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The hat first came on my radar when my editor sent a link to me as a lark.
    — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 31 Aug. 2021
  • But the game is not a lark — the Orioles are one of the Red Sox’ competitors for a wild-card berth.
    — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Colorado: Lark bunting The lark bunting is Colorado's state bird.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
  • The exercise was a bit of a lark, and a bit of a coping mechanism.
    — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Guy Ritchie might be having a lark, but that doesn’t mean the audience will be.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The father owned a chic restaurant as a lark, a place to entertain.
    — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • Our first winters in the country, our driveway was plowed by a friend of a friend who did it almost as a lark.
    — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives.
    — Travis Bean, Forbes, 25 June 2022
  • Their father, Mark, played in the original game in 1971, started as a lark to celebrate the end of the high school year.
    — Lori Riley, courant.com, 19 June 2021
  • Wilbur Brown bought a multi-drawing Megabucks ticket on a lark.
    — oregonlive, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Begun as a lark, the crop circles provide them a lifeline.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 13 May 2022
  • The biggest factor, the one that made all the others possible, started as a lark.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Years later, some would claim that the magazine was a lark, that it was intended to be a one-shot deal.
    — Sean Howe, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Then there was Ribfest, which was created somewhat on a lark by the city’s biggest columnist at the time, Mike Royko.
    — Nick Kindelsperger, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Sweet invented his free throw shooting method on a lark.
    — Mike Hutton, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2023
  • It was supposed to be a lark, the joint album by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, and certainly not a cash-in or an awards play.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Performers must make landing a quadruple toe loop look like a lark.
    — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2022
  • What started as a lark in the early days of podcasting has turned into a refuge for the trio’s creativity, friendship and even a way for the hosts to pay the bills.
    — William Earl, Variety, 14 July 2023
  • The drawings started out as an artistic lark and ended up a literary timeline of my adult life.
    — David G. Allan, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Most upsetting of all is a bout of boyish horseplay, in a bedroom, that kicks off as a lark but turns into a dogfight, complete with claws and teeth.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Originally launched as something of a lark, the contest has grown to be one of the Library Shop’s most popular programs.
    — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2022
  • Men in Black is a miracle of a blockbuster — a snazzy, funny, eye-popping sci-fi action movie — and Smith treats the whole enterprise like one big lark.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2021
  • In the meantime, Musk appears to be enjoying the media attention on his newest lark.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The lighting designer, Natasha Katz, makes the night in this shadowy realm seem deeper with fog and moonlight—we’re down where the mud larks go, those who scavenge the Thames’s banks, looking for flotsam to sell.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Walsh is what researchers describe as a lark: a person who rises early and is more active in the morning, compared to a night owl who thrives after dark.
    — Time, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Gender reassignment is not something that someone does on a lark.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Furthermore, young adults who are neither larks nor owls show less variability in performance over the day.
    — Cindi May, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2023
  • On its face, this latest holiday special represents little more than a playful lark, and a welcome one for fans.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 16 Nov. 2020
  • The survey was a lark, something most Tulane students saw as an icebreaker more than an important service.
    — Susan Dominus, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023

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