hawked in English

verb

1

(of a person) hunt game with a trained hawk.

he spent the afternoon hawking

2

(of a bird or dragonfly) hunt on the wing for food.

swifts hawked low over the water

3

carry around and offer (goods) for sale, typically advertising them by shouting.

street traders were hawking costume jewelry

synonyms: peddle, sell, tout, vend, trade in, traffic in, push

4

clear the throat noisily.

he hawked and spat into the flames

verb

peddle, sell, tout, vend, trade in, traffic in, push
peddle, monger, huckster, pitch, vend
clear the throat

Use "hawked" in a sentence

1. One Quer é taro - based outfit hawked square tortillas.

2. 2 Contraceptives are hawked through the print media and on billboards.

3. He hawked on me down and clutched my throat with his two hands.

4. Synonyms for Bruited include cried, announced, trumpeted, advertised, broadcast, broadcasted, hawked, proclaimed, publicized and barked

5. Antonyms for Blanketed include cried, announced, trumpeted, advertised, broadcast, broadcasted, hawked, proclaimed, publicized and barked

6. "There is a kind of false precision being hawked by people claiming they are doing ancestry testing," says Trey Duster, a New York University sociologist.

7. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with Constitution that Congress can't begin to 'Abridge' it, in its pride of place, is hawked at by this crested jay-bird.