How to Use hawk in a Sentence

hawk

1 of 2 noun

• That said, Bryant was a ball hawk.
  — Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
• Will Warsh be a hawk or a dove?
  — Rachel Barber, USA Today, 17 June 2026
• Natascha looked up and spotted a hawk.
  — Ben Fong-Torres, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2026
• Three others have been killed by hawks.
  — Sid Evans, Southern Living, 18 Feb. 2026
• The girls’ screech now high and piercing like a hawk’s.
  — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
• Are there owls or hawks in the area that would be tempted by a small dog?
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
• This hawk also had a golden band on its left leg.
  — Joshua Tehee, Sacbee.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• The tabloid media and paparazzi were on you like a hawk.
  — Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
• The hawk was the first to recover.
  — Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
• Joseph is a ball-hawk with the ball skills of a wide receiver.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2022
• There were ospreys, hawks, and a lot of tree swallows.
  — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 16 June 2026
• Safety Kevin Byard is a ball hawk on the back end.
  — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 14 May 2026
• Just above it, Petty pointed out a hawk roost.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
• The only thing that does is keep the bird from hitting the hawk decal.
  — NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
• The news certainly aligned with her record as a defense hawk.
  — Nikhil Kumar, Time, 15 Apr. 2026
• Finally, the hawk wrestled the snake off her arm and flew away.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
• In the sky, birds like hawks rely on the wind to aid their migration.
  — Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
• Everything from hawks to eagles, weasels to wolves may eat them.
  — Steven Sullivan, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026
• Security hawks—on the right and left—see risks.
  — Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
• Some of the hawk’s feathers were clogged under the squirrel’s claws.
  — Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
• Threats include winter storms and predators such as hawks.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 11 May 2026
• The head and body of this hawk are composed of dark clouds and filaments of gas and dust.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 6 Mar. 2026
• Hike twin summits where hawks soar and wildflowers bloom.
  — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
• That leaves fiscal hawks in a strange position.
  — Taylor Millard, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
• Outside, deer, hawks, and even whales offshore remind you how wild this stretch of coast still is.
  — Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 24 Feb. 2026
• The bill that fiscal hawks have been warning about will come due in the near future if no changes are made.
  — The Editors, National Review, 3 Aug. 2023
• Shires is coy about whether the design on her arm depicts the hawk, as in, the pursuer, or the dove.
  — Jewly Height, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2022
• This argument may not be so convincing to debt hawks.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 May 2026
• Similarly, many hawks and falcons aren’t large enough to lift a pet.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2023
• How much talk can a Fed speaker squawk if a Fed speaker can squawk like a hawk?
  — Tracy Alloway, Bloomberg.com, 13 Oct. 2022

hawk

2 of 2 verb

• Judy Garland hawking paving stones.
  — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
• Chui Lo Ko came up with an idea to cook beef steak with soy sauce and hawk his food on the street.
  — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 3 Nov. 2022
• There was no product to hawk, no photograph to admire, no movie-star name in lights.
  — Time, 21 May 2021
• But no one had a plan for where the 50 or so vendors who had been hawking there for years would go.
  — Curbed, 11 Jan. 2024
• There’s a long history of dudes in the West putting up tents to hawk crap to other dudes.
  — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
• The piragüeros really did park their carts on the sidewalk to hawk their flavors of the day.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 10 June 2021
• Even street vendors hawking sweets and trinkets follow the dollar’s rise and fall.
  — Mery Mogollon, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
• But, to be fair, some of that action was due to Hufanga's ball-hawking radar, too.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2025
• Teenagers in Lagos hawk cellphone chargers in rush-hour traffic.
  — Lynsey Chutel Gulshan Khan, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• In the overnight viral sensations who become brands and try to hawk a predatory meme coin.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2026
• Anyone older than thirty seemed to be hawking the contents of their apartments on the streets.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
• Good on Dale ignoring tech salesmen hawking equipment that means good men will get laid off.
  — William Earl, Variety, 21 Dec. 2025
• These policies are fantastic sources of easy revenue for the retailers that hawk them.
  — Kevin Brasler, Star Tribune, 6 Feb. 2021
• Her parents on Monday were farther down the route, also hawking hot dogs.
  — Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2024
• Trump merchandise was hawked in front of the Reagan Library sign.
  — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• In all, at least a quarter of the channels appear to be hawking more than just abortifacients.
  — WIRED, 23 June 2023
• The talk turned to a certain Bible-hawking President.
  — Henry Alford, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
• Peddlers weave through the throng hawking rain cover in summer and plastic cushions in winter.
  — Choe Sang-Hun Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• In other words, Heidecker plans to hawk supplements like these.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
• One booth is hawking Wagyu beef jerky, another wants to introduce you to gochujang cheese.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
• The shirts that are hawked outside the Coliseum today are much more hastily made.
  — Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 4 Sep. 2025
• To my left, a girl was hawking chikanda out of a bag in a plastic dish mounted precariously on her head.
  — Literary Hub, 27 Mar. 2026
• Some of their posts hawking these bulbs get millions of views, which might have more to do with how orange pops on a blue screen than with the health benefits.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 28 Apr. 2026
• To this day, counterfeit DVDs are still being hawked on eBay.
  — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
• However, that ball-hawking cornerback appears to be long gone.
  — James Boyd, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
• Miller is prized for her ability to hawk opposing midfielders and knock down passes to cutters.
  — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 8 Apr. 2021
• Organizers are still hawking them, and promotions have been aimed at getting more fans in arena seats.
  — Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 3 Dec. 2025
• In February 2004, the couple teamed up to hawk the giant rock.
  — Amanda Michelle Steiner, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2023
• In just a short time, Louis has already put his ball hawking prowess on display with a pick-six during rookie minicamp.
  — Miami Herald, 1 June 2026
• Out on the streets, hard-up toons hawk social security scams, addictive cheeses and Muppet fights.
  — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 17 May 2022