How to Use hark back in a Sentence

hark back

verb
  • Why hark back to this period in time?
    — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 26 May 2026
  • Simon above all is kind, harking back to his childhood.
    — Jeff Metcalfe, AZCentral.com, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Its latest moves, though, hark back to its roots in the commercial style known as jazz dance.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Snyder's wedding gift harked back to their first fateful encounter.
    — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025
  • This harks back to the days when everyone selected a major that spoke to them.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Rousteing’s love of perfume harks back to his beginnings.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • To many in the West, lead poisoning harks back to an earlier era.
    — Rachel Silverman Bonnifield, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Some of the choral lines have a solemn contrapuntal richness that harks back to the Baroque.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • His campaign speeches harked back to his first rise to power, in 1994.
    — Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 12 June 2023
  • And yet, her hair harked back to Old Hollywood glamor, styled in a side part with soft waves.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 22 May 2026
  • Standard tie-dye kits might hark back too much to summer camp and art classes, so how about deep, rich indigo dye?
    — Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2020
  • To hark back to the ’90s, finish the look off with The Row’s little black bag.
    — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Lithographs of pheasants adorning a wall harked back to his youth when his family raised the birds.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • For years, however, old-timers reunited to hark back on life in the little valley town.
    — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The Ukrainian troops are well aware the harsh conditions hark back to battles from a bygone era.
    — Nils Adler, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The fighting would hark back to the awful trench warfare of the First World War.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • There's sort of some harking back to a kind of 19th Century approach to this.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Jan. 2026
  • And that is only one of many ways that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine harks back to the two world wars.
    — Margaret MacMillan, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2023
  • The caned back and seat are supported by a bamboo frame that harks back to the Victorian era.
    — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 7 May 2025
  • Ye says that even with the regional overlap, his flavor profiles hark back to his Zhejiang roots.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Maybe a lovely patio or some sort of charming restaurant that harks back to another time that my father would enjoy.
    — Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Russia's enrollment of convicts to the front lines harks back to the Bashi-bazouks of the Ottoman armies.
    — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The star adorning the space above 6 o’clock also harks back to 1950s timepieces from Omega.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Yet, linguists say, its impetus harks back to a dark time in American history.
    — Moriah Humiston, NBC news, 3 Apr. 2026
  • There’s an à-la-carte menu, and a shop-the-pantry conceit that harks back to the whole dinner-in-a-deli vibe of its Roman progenitor.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2023
  • This ethos harks back to another era of resistance in the Los Angeles harbor.
    — Oren Peleg, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The medal trays, which hark back to Vuitton’s trunk-making heritage, were crafted by the house’s artisans at one of its leather goods workshops.
    — Joelle Diderich, WWD, 2 July 2024
  • Much of the new album actually harks back to jazz and soul classics, with songs that may not ignite a stadium, but would play well in a piano bar or lounge.
    — Tim Chan, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Parker’s side part harked back to the beauty trends of the 2010s, a pivotal time in the lives of many Gen Z-ers.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 24 May 2025
  • That harked back to South Africa’s first all-race democratic election in 1994 after the end of apartheid.
    — Keith B. Richburg, Washington Post, 19 June 2024

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