larks

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Definitions

Phrases

• lark it up
• happy as the day is long (as a lark)

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

• What began as a lark turned into Noah Basketball, named not-so-subtly for the biblical Noah’s ark story.

• Having a quest is an excellent way to travel, even if it’s just a lark.

• There are many other reasons why couples are increasingly choosing to sleep apart, including differences in sleep-wake schedules—she’s a lark, he’s an owl, differences in work schedules, and children, to name a few.

• It was all just a lark, a prank pulled by Jones to pass the stagnant time.

• Topher Grace, a varsity tennis player, got hurt, decided to do a school play on a lark and BAM!

• Free Crimea, we ultimately discover, is the work of a drunken Brit on a lark.

• But what started as a lark became a professional passion for Holland.

• The idea was conceived by a food scientist at Brigham Young University, who added dry ice to the cultured dairy on a lark.

• Like so many young girls, she tried modeling as a lark, a way of escaping the humdrum and finding glamour.

• Mercury on a lark in your opposite sign calls for expressions that run counter to the woulda-shoulda-coulda loop in your mind.

• Hence Shakespeare speaks of 'the lark, that tirra-lyra chants,' Wint.

• High overhead a lark was pouring out its song; in the lane at the orchard end rang the beat of trotting hoofs.

• Or how is it that grass grows in the fields, and the lark sings in the sky, and the trees lose their leaves in winter?

• He was as gay as a lark, humming an Oppra tune, and twizzting round his head his hevy gold-headed cane.

• Up we marched to our apartmince, me carrying the light and the cloax, master hummink a hair out of the oppra, as merry as a lark.