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.

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

  • In another throwback to earlier forms, Reply All will be written and published in weekly installments.

  • In the New York Times Book Review , Daphne Merkin calls Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls "a throwback to a time before fiction turned graphic and interior and hot to the touch."


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