lark

Example Sentences

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Stoppard announced himself with “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” an absurdist lark that views “Hamlet” from the keyhole perspective of two courtiers jockeying for position in the new regime.

From Los Angeles Times

Birds fly behind, finches and macaws and vultures and larks, monarchs and thrushes and curlews and crows.

From New York Times

If you can find a way to see this performance as a lighthearted lark, not something sexual or shameful, then leave the drag queens alone.

From Washington Post

But the first episode is just a lark about my love of running and how I see in the future a world where I can run wherever I want.

From New York Times

That, I think, partly explains why his “Showgirls” — in which he shows the film and gives eviscerating commentary — started as a lark 22 years ago and has become a beloved national phenomenon.

From Seattle Times