Synonyms of hawked

hawked

verb

past tense of hawk

as in peddled

to sell from place to place usually in small quantities

a determined bootstrapper who went from hawking newspapers on the street corner to running a media empire

Synonyms & Similar Words

• peddled
• distributed
• retailed
• marketed
• wholesaled
• vended
• merchandised
• dealt (in)
• traded (in)
• hustled
• high-pressured

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hawked

After debuting his first soymilk maker, Wang personally hawked his fledgling creation in markets and malls. — Charlie Campbell, Time, 18 Aug. 2026

Kids frolicked in the new Nikki Spoelstra Play Forest, one of the segment’s highlights, while a band played and vendors hawked food by South Miami City Hall as advocates and officials spoke at the dedication. — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 17 Aug. 2026

None other than Russian President Vladimir Putin hawked his air defense wares a few months before the Soleimani assassination. — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Outside the stadium gates, dozens of vendors hawked barbequed skewers, cold noodles and sweets at a dedicated night market for game days. — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 21 July 2026

Flocks of tourists maneuvered around lumbering delivery trucks, hawked to by distributors of seemingly unlicensed 2026 Knicks championship gear. — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 18 June 2026

Amid a dense thicket of timber-and-metal stalls where secondhand retailers ordinarily hawked their wares, a runner of red-and-green astroturf cut a path toward a stage draped in the tricolor of the Ghanaian flag. — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 8 June 2026

The design, much like an earlier iteration hawked by Halmar’s parent company, involves purchasing the Infosys Theater from Madison Square Garden in order to build a spacious entrance on Eighth Avenue, across from Moynihan Train Hall. — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 8 June 2026

To this day, counterfeit DVDs are still being hawked on eBay. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026