Example sentences for: throwback

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

  • In an era of quality teams and free-agent workforces, the UAW vote was a throwback to an era of union militancy.

  • 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."

  • The only scene that completely works is between Brooks and an Italian guy (Mario Opinato) who doesn't understand a word he says--an exhilarating throwback to the radio-comedy days of Brooks' dad, Harry Einstein (also known as Parkyakarcas).

  • Some critics describe the top-rated drama's live broadcast as a welcome throwback to 1950s television.

  • This removable whistle was actually a throwback to the earliest version of the whistling teakettle.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast