How to Use lark in a Sentence

lark

noun
  • His project started out as a lark.
    — Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 25 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • His movies are goofs, larks, stunts, knowingly arch bizarro-world riffs.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 May 2026
  • Indeed, at least a few are viewing the possible strike as a bit of a lark.
    — Anne Kadet, Curbed, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The father owned a chic restaurant as a lark, a place to entertain.
    — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • Performers must make landing a quadruple toe loop look like a lark.
    — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives.
    — Travis Bean, Forbes, 25 June 2022
  • 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 exercise was a bit of a lark, and a bit of a coping mechanism.
    — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 2 Feb. 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
  • Wilbur Brown bought a multi-drawing Megabucks ticket on a lark.
    — oregonlive, 24 Mar. 2022
  • What started as a boyhood lark became a career with a mission.
    — Heather Abbott, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Some of us are unambiguous morning larks.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • The biggest factor, the one that made all the others possible, started as a lark.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2023
  • At that rummage-y point several years ago, Ben Stiller had no idea where his filmic lark would lead.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Feeling slightly out of place amid this crowd is Annie, here on a lark to appease her sister.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 19 June 2026
  • Feeling slightly out of place amid this crowd is Annie, here on a lark to appease her sister.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Gender reassignment is not something that someone does on a lark.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 25 Feb. 2021
  • That includes a bird-calling scene that sees the duo strolling through the forest and offering up their own spin on the calls of thrushes and larks.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 June 2026
  • 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
  • On a lark, Rosalind Rich Rieser once visited a psychic.
    — Rebecca McCarthy, AJC.com, 30 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • The cockerel had been crowing for a good while before that, but today Archie was literally up with the lark.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Once the lark rises to welcome the day in Cotton’s poem, the human household springs into action.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • In the meantime, Musk appears to be enjoying the media attention on his newest lark.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 14 Oct. 2022
  • 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

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