How to Use on/as a lark in a Sentence

on/as a lark

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• The father owned a chic restaurant as a lark, a place to entertain.
  — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• Wilbur Brown bought a multi-drawing Megabucks ticket on a lark.
  — oregonlive, 24 Mar. 2022
• The biggest factor, the one that made all the others possible, started as a lark.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2023
• Dogecoin started on a lark the same year that Robinhood was founded.
  — Kevin T. Dugan, Fortune, 1 July 2021
• Gender reassignment is not something that someone does on a lark.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 25 Feb. 2021
• But prior to its reference in the dialogue, Park wrote the title first on a lark.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2024
• My family ventured into the city one night and on a lark, stopped into the MFA.
  — Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 6 June 2025
• 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 trip is presented almost as a lark, something to break up the sisters’ otherwise not-that-exciting lives.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 24 June 2025
• 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
• Her knack for hairdressing revealed itself on a lark, though her creative sensibilities were clear from an early age.
  — Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 2 Mar. 2025
• 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
• Would a waiting period prove an annoyance to hunters, target shooters and others accustomed to picking up a new firearm on a lark?
  — Arkansas Online, 20 Mar. 2021
• Though given that Agatha works best as a lark, sometimes the more committed the actor, the less successful the performance is in context.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2024
• It’s birthed a whole new side of the entertainment and marketing business People often dismiss social media content creation as a lark rather than a real job.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 2 Apr. 2023
• That colossal production, which involved the construction of villages in which to film and the onscreen involvement of the host country’s armed forces, began as a lark and turned into an albatross.
  — Jillian Steinhauer, New Yorker, 27 June 2025
• Luckily, Death Cab has performed the album in full on a couple of prior occasions, including on a lark in Chicago on the day of its 15th anniversary.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 31 Jan. 2023
• But, despite her status as a trailblazer, her campaign—set against an entirely white, entirely male field of rivals for the Democratic Party’s nomination—was more often than not treated as a lark.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 27 July 2024
• In scenes like this one—wherein Whitfield plays wingwoman to a newly single Jenna Lyons on a lark to the city’s most iconic lesbian bar—the franchise reverts to the unfettered silliness of its early seasons.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 14 Feb. 2024