Example Sentences

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In selecting the name Peacock, NBCUniversal is harking back to its roots as America’s broadcast pioneer.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2019

What we are not doing is harking back to a bygone era.

From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2011

Nostalgia both long and short is a recurring theme in Jerusalem, and here Ginger is harking back to the halcyon days of publicly owned bus services.

From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2010

But does that mean fashion is harking back to the '60s?

From Time Magazine Archive

And when he refers to the "coma, colum, perydus," he is harking back to the classical divisions of the rhythmical members of a sentence: the "comma, colon, et periodus."

From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Clark, Donald Lemen