Sentence examples for a lark that from inspiring English sources

"It was a lark," Mr. Hotchner said, a lark that would turn into Newman's Own, which has donated all its millions of dollars of profits to charities.

It's a lark that seems to bring them closer together, until it becomes clear that Chris's erotic obsession threatens their relationship.

Professional identity crises tend to do that to a guy, especially one with a fondness for psychotherapy, quoting Freud and Jung and, in a lark that may not be coincidental, mimicking the simpering, back-stabbing Eddie Haskell character from "Leave It to Beaver," a favorite show from childhood.

The old Plan B was a lark that you could enjoy even if you never got past the dreaming phase.

"I discovered as a lark that shellfish aquaculture had so many of the components of electrical, plumbing and carpentry work," he said.

I thought at first it was just a lark, that it would last just a few months, until that November, and then I'd stop meself and say, 'At least I've had six months of damned good fun.' But I've been in business now for over 20 years!

Nothing was a big deal, except that it always was, insofar as everybody involved wanted things to go well because the project was a gorgeous lark that had become meaningful to people in a way that so many self-serious artists would kill for.

The three Wisconsin-born filmmakers were rather amazed that anybody would give them a budget -- and $3.5 million at that -- to make such a lark, one that had no big stars.

It was more of a lark, and that's when you do your best.

Sceptics on the US side of the Atlantic may not have been ready to believe it, but the Italian-American development of a new, small Jeep appears to have not been the peril-filled lark that it once seemed.

Marvin presents it here as the lark that Ford sold it to him as, and it really is a rollicking, brawling hoot.