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

Young salespeople hawked their company’s wares with the hyperbole associated with a consumer business rather than selling business enterprise solutions. — Joseph Andrew, Forbes.com, 26 June 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

Exhibitors hawked unmanned aerial vehicles and systems to manage them; a few booths further down, other companies sold systems to shoot those same drones down. — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2026

California businessman Bob Prewitt commissioned Muffler Men from sculptor Bill Swan and hawked them to auto shops across the country from 1962 to 1973. — Heather Bushman, IndyStar, 25 Mar. 2026

In other cases highlighted by TODAY, AI impersonators hawked treatments that were scientifically impossible. — John Whyte, STAT, 17 Feb. 2026