How to Use hawker in a Sentence

hawker

noun
  • The street hawkers have yet to set up shop.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • This hawker races into the store, finds a Bengals hat and asks for $10.
    — The Enquirer, 2 June 2022
  • While dozens of hawkers normally fill that third -of-a-mile-long stretch, only two stands were open for business a day after the raids.
    — Daniella Silva, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Every twenty or thirty feet, a hawker would shout and cross the street to shake my hand, or step away from a storefront and fall in beside me.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Of those who stay, more than eighty per cent work in the informal sector—as domestic servants, street hawkers, porters, cleaners.
    — Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • For a more low-key flavor, Chua recommended heading to a hawker center.
    — Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 6 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Instead, the plaza was hectic with hawkers; a Burger King and a store called Cannabis Shop were in view.
    — D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Any vendor selling merchandise in Boston is required to have a hawkers and peddlers license.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The woman, Mirta Kuzmana, is perhaps the only female hawker there.
    — Corey Kilgannon Dar Yaskil, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Bring your pastry to Marine Parade’s public lawns for a lakeside lunch in view of street performers, snack carts and thrill ride hawkers.
    — New York Times, 2 Apr. 2026
  • 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 peanut hawkers at sports venues over a century ago wouldn’t recognize the diversity of food—or seating types—in today’s modern stadium.
    — Tim Newcomb, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Singapore thrives in contrast—where tropical rainforest meets a gleaming skyline, and sizzling hawker stalls hum beneath soaring glass domes.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • It’s built to resemble utopia but registers as an artificial paradise, the sort designed to sell forever the way hawkers on a convention floor sell timeshares.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Time, 26 Nov. 2025
  • In wealthy Medellin, hawkers have transformed onetime local drug lord Pablo Escobar into a mascot for touristic trinkets.
    — Ladan Anoushfar, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Across history, hawkers of new communications technologies have expressed a desire to smooth out and speed up human conversation.
    — Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
  • 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
  • The mall fills up with crappy weed shops and keychain hawkers; underfunding means the maintenance slips; eventually, maybe, there’s a bankruptcy, followed by a long twilight as an eyesore.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Breakfast might be kopitiam toast and soft eggs, lunch a plate of chicken rice at a hawker stall, and dinner a tasting menu influenced by the flavors of the Malay Archipelago.
    — Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
  • There also did not appear to be many hawkers, who stand on the sidewalk with binders filled with photographs of different items that are later retrieved from a storefront, storage bin or other location upon request.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • 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

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