How to Use on/as a lark in a Sentence

on/as a lark

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  • What started as a lark 13 months ago is now his life’s work.
    M.t. Richards, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sweet invented his free throw shooting method on a lark.
    Mike Hutton, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2023
  • Dogecoin started on a lark the same year that Robinhood was founded.
    Kevin T. Dugan, Fortune, 1 July 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Walsh is what researchers describe as a lark: a person who rises early and is more active in the morning, compared to a night owl who thrives after dark.
    Time, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Gender reassignment is not something that someone does on a lark.
    Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 25 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Last fall, the 3-acre property — which includes a main house, outbuildings, a greenhouse, several ponds and dozens of wooden walking bridges — sold for $1.75 million to Hadley Dynak and Kent Strader, who purchased it on a lark.
    Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • As a teenager from a working-class background, Ms. Jackson joined an amateur acting troupe on a lark while working at a pharmacy near her hometown outside Liverpool.
    Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 15 June 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

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