How to Use ark in a Sentence

ark

noun
  • Other folk tales trace them back to Noah's ark.
    — Emily Feng, NPR, 1 Apr. 2026
  • For now, there is no ark housing the Torah scrolls.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Yet these medals have come amid a career ark with plenty of setbacks.
    — Katherine Cusumano, Outside, 21 Feb. 2026
  • And of course, Noah and his sons are shown in the construction of the ark.
    — Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The piece as a whole feels like a kind of ark or boat that travels through your mind in its own expanse of blue.
    — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
  • But with enough rain to float off Kentucky’s own ark, the ground is in no mood to be worked right now.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Farther north is a row of private arks; upscale houseboats all in a row.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 22 Feb. 2020
  • How did all the animals, birds and creeping things fit into the ark?
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Once the ark was built, God sent a rainstorm that lasted 40 days.
    — David R Montgomery, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2012
  • Many people believe the ark and flood are a fairytale, but there is someone who disagrees.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The first is an entry room where a storm is brewing and animals are loaded into the ark.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • In the end, the rains stop, and Uta-napishti’s ark, like Noah’s, gets snagged on a mountaintop.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • The release estimates that over a million visitors flock to the ark each year.
    — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 26 Feb. 2023
  • To see the show, guests don't have to buy admission to the ark and can only pay the $10 parking fee.
    — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • While there is no resident rabbi, the synagogue does keep a kosher Torah scroll in its ark.
    — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • He's been Noah and all the animals on the ark in the same TikTok sketch.
    — Sherry Liang, CNN, 30 Dec. 2021
  • It is said in the movie that Adolf Hitler thought having the ark would make his army invincible.
    — John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • In the Bible, a dove brings an olive leaf to Noah on the ark, a sign that the world is not entirely destroyed.
    — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Sales of survival kits soared, and there were reports that a man in China built a modern-day Noah's ark.
    — John Blake, CNN, 22 Mar. 2020
  • The clergy specifically placed the handles of the tall ark at the bottom, so that even preschoolers would be able to open it.
    — Rachel Kraus, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
  • In this text, those humans who escape by the skin of their teeth are the ones who shove the beasts out into the killing ice, who push others away from the ark.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2022
  • God told Noah to build a boat called an ark, big enough for himself, his wife, his sons, their wives, and at least two of every animal.
    — David R Montgomery, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2012
  • The other day, Ham, who is seventy-two, surveyed the ark from the park’s welcome center.
    — Oliver Whang, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • In the Bible, God orders Noah to carry two of every living creature on his ark.
    — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 22 May 2017
  • His mini-spaceship is even like the little ark that carried Moses down the River Nile.
    — Jay Michaelson, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
  • In the music video, Lamar is on a voyage to (and through) Africa that starts in an ark-like vessel with a sea of hands waving below.
    — Taylor Hosking, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2018
  • So the pair employ the Loki playbook of trickery and deception to get aboard a train that’s headed to where the ark’s being prepped for launch.
    — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 23 June 2021
  • When Irma moves to Georgia, this isn’t going to be like emerging from the ark with Noah to the fresh smell of the verdant new earth.
    — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • In the ad, a reporter interviews Noah (captain of the Biblical ark) about the rewards of sharing a ride.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 9 Sep. 2020
  • As worshippers exited the sanctuary, Repp would make his way to the bimah – the pulpit – and stand alone near the ark holding the Torahs.
    — Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News, 14 Jan. 2020

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