Example sentences for: throwback

How can you use “throwback” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Working on it until six days before his death, the sculptor chiselled a pathetic Mary struggling to hold up the dead Jesus, a strange throwback to medieval sculpture for his last tussle with recalcitrant stone.

  • Joe is also a sexually charged throwback with predatory sensibilities, notorious for his lack of sensitivity to females.

  • You could almost see it as a throwback to the 18 th century, before the Novel got confused with Art and the novelist's job was to write clean prose, trot out a few moral guidelines, and make the reader laugh.

  • Having branded Wolf a "controversial feminist," the media turn around and deride her hierarchy of "alpha" and "beta" males as a macho throwback.

  • Along the Hotel Zone, the throwback disco Christine still manages to draw a crowd for the nightly midnight laser show, and J&B is a very hot spot for true Latin dancing; a favorite with locals, it’s open until 5am.


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