ark

Example Sentences

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Unassuming from the outside, the shop opens into a huge ark of mortar-crusted brick and ribcage-like beams, with long dining tables displaying shapely vases, pitchers, teacups and plates in shades of apricot, amber and malachite.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Our little makeshift ark hadn’t washed away in the night lagoon, much to our collective relief.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

Let me explain, and at the risk of coming across like a guy building an ark in the desert, offer options for adding dividends at a time of relative scarcity.

From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025

Chelsea welcomed Armenian side FC Noah, named after the biblical character with the ark, to Stamford Bridge.

From BBC • May 28, 2025

The world looked stepped on and drenched, but my sisters ran out squealing like the first free pigs off the ark, eager to see what the flood had left us.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver