The word "hawk" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to a type of bird, or as a verb to refer to the act of scouting or scouting out. Example sentence: The experienced hawk perched atop the tree, watching the field for prey.
Victoria's treasurer, Michael O'Brien, another Liberal, said he would be "watching like a hawk" to see whether the new Medicare co-payment had the predicted effect of sick people instead going to state-run hospital emergency departments, saying that was "a form of cost-shifting we simply can't bear".
Former UN ambassador John Bolton, a hawk's hawk, played to type, declaring, "we do not accept an America that is weak and declining, we do not accept an American military that is weak and poorly equipped, and in particular, we do not accept an American president who is weak and indecisive and apologetic about our country".
In the daytime, she sends her older children out to hawk plastic bags of water for five naira (2p) apiece – they need to sell 40 to afford a tube of toothpaste.
At the city bazaar, where Russians and Tatars hawk their wares side by side, a Russian, Viktoria Bayeva, said that "everything seems friendly" for now.
Since launching his campaign last month, Rubio has positioned himself as the top defense hawk in a crowded GOP primary, where national security has emerged as a high priority issue for likely Republican voters.
Tough job? "Yellen will have to convey that she has the head of a hawk and the soul of a dove," argues Business Week.
Obama's efforts to dissuade sceptics in his own party from undermining the agreement were dealt an unexpected boost on Thursday, when Bob Menendez, a Democratic hawk and a thorn in the administration's side on Iran, was criminally indicted.
What we want to know is if Forbes, hot-foot from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, is a hawk or a dove.
At this height the vegetation was becoming sparse, but even here there were tracks of vicunas (wild llamas), and a large hawk swooped overhead.
The oldest market, the Naschmarkt, spans a mile-long stretch in the heart of downtown, where Turkish merchants hawk falafel, sweet potatoes and blindingly bright chilli peppers, Italians sell olives the size of golf balls, and Austrians peddle their now famous strom – young wine that packs a serious punch.
I was lucky she trusted me, but she watched me like a hawk when I photographed her at 80.
