I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
watch
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He seemed to be watching her like a hawk , waiting for some reaction.
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Plus, the speaker will be watched like a hawk for any signs of hubris or further financial shenanigans.
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Kruger is watching them like a hawk !
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And it's putting me off, having you watching me like a hawk all the time.
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I was watching a hawk above the trees when suddenly I saw something move.
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Today, more than usual, he had been watching them like a hawk .
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Yet another one she was going to have to watch like a hawk , she thought wearily.
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They're watching me like hawks here.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
have eyes like a hawk
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My mother had eyes like a hawk.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The hawks in the government would never permit any talks with the enemy.
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the hawks in the President's cabinet
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And when a hawk meets a hawk?
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California growers have found that enlisting the aid of hawks and owls is relatively simple.
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I knew how the mouse felt when the hawk seized it.
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More fundamental were his experiments with hawks, in which he fed them meat contained in small cages.
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On this argument, the hawks have found an unlikely ally: the Clinton administration.
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The hawk was sacred to her, and was used to depict her symbolically in art.
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The past is the hawk , flying higher; its talons are stronger, its wings wide and majestic.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A man on the corner was hawking T-shirts and souvenirs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bob Hope, for instance, came on the J. C. Penney shopping channel to hawk his new book.
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Contraceptives are hawked through the print media and on billboards.
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Gregarious, flocks often hawking for flying insects and spiralling up to perform aerobatics.
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It swoops low, hawking, across the hillside, over the fort and out into the mists of Corve Dale.
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Most people know that they hawk and feed on other flies.
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The crowd milled around chatting and exchanging tips, hawking and spitting, slurping tea and placing bets.