Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: hawks
IPA transcription: [h'ɔks]
Pronunciations of hawks
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Usage examples
  • There are hawks, snakes, dingoes and humans, and no one can tell for what good they exist.
  • I saw three grey hawks out of the South Come flying over the sea, And the red drops they bare in their mouth They were dearer than life to me.
  • And the rest gave way and fled in terror just as doves fly in terror before swift-winged hawks. And with a din they rustled in a body to the gates; and quickly the city was filled with loud cries at the turning of the dolorous fight.
  • In giving the senate an account of his mission, one of the ambassadors, Dominic of Treviso, drew the following portrait of Louis XII.: "The king is in stature tall and thin, and temperate in eating, taking scarcely anything but boiled beef; he is by nature miserly and retentive; his great pleasure is hawking; from September to April he hawks.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Black vulture, License CC BY-SA 4.0