Example sentences for: throwback

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

  • Murdoch may be a modernist in his pursuit of a global techno-empire, but he's also an anachronism, a throwback to Hearst and Pulitzer.

  • 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.

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

  • It helps that in The Spy Who Shagged Me , Dr. Evil has soared in stature, becoming nearly as heroic a throwback as Austin himself--the supervillain seeming far more vulnerable to the slings and arrows of ridicule than the superhero.

  • What it wasn't, though, was a throwback to an era of union power.


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