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lark

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verb

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Recent Examples of lark
Noun
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 8 Aug. 2025 Sometimes the best way to deal with the most serious subjects is to treat them like a lark. Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 18 July 2025
Verb
And it was discovered by accident, when Delap and a few team-mates were larking about in training. Nick Miller, New York Times, 22 May 2025 Before proceedings got under way Fallon was seen larking around at the front of the audience hall, before quickly being told to get to his seat as the pope was about to walk through the door. Christopher Lamb, CNN, 14 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for lark
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lark
Noun
  • Hawke is on a real spree this fall with a slew of high-profile projects hitting screens big and small.
    Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Someone appears to have gone on a killing spree backstage, at a wrestling match.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But only once has the mercantile danced with the affluent to such sensuous effect in the realm of fiction.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Sometimes that is dancing to music in my living room.
    Renée Onque, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Yes, the team that led comfortably all game, that leaped ahead 20-3, went up by as much as 31-10 and had to punt just twice.
    Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Saft, not bothering to remove his sneakers, leaped onto a chair to place an ornate gold mirror over the mantelpiece.
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • While capering around with her boss, Matty keeps looking for a private moment alone with Olympia’s luggage.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Chapman persuaded Ford Motor Co. to fulfill his V-8 engine requirements and built the first of what were to become revolutionary Lotus-Fords, pencil-thin cars that looked like spiders capering through the turns.
    Mike Kupper, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
Verb
  • Restaurants like Chili’s and Jack in the Box hopped into his comments section to emphasize the mozzarella stick love too.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2025
  • In the seconds-long clip, Thomas, 19, can be seen hopping over a barrier and approaching a large divider, prompting the elephant to move closer to him.
    Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Dodgers have romped through this postseason like they were expected to do from March through September by winning eight of their nine games.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Europe romped to a nine-point thrashing.
    Don Riddell, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • His nephew said that, for decades, his grandparents had kept alive a faint hope that maybe their hero son had just been captured and would one day come gamboling through the front door to the family’s Brookside home.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 10 Oct. 2025
  • An escaped pet zebra that went on the lam in Tennessee was captured Sunday after gamboling in the forest for more than a week.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 8 June 2025
Verb
  • Because of the tides, you’re forced to slow down and savor the waterfalls pouring into the ocean, cliffside beaches, forests, fog, sea lions, elephant seals, and otters frolicking not far off your path.
    Jacqueline Kehoe, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The trio lets their imaginations drift, stretching out ideas of structure and frolicking with unexpected arrangements, often midsong.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Lark.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lark. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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