hearken back

verb

variants or harken back

hearkened back or harkened back; hearkening back or harkening back; hearkens back or harkens back

intransitive verb

: to go back to or recall to mind something in the past : hark back

—usually used with to

This place caters to Americans and hearkens back to days when the town attracted famous celebrities.—

Barbara Zaragoza

Greenberg worked very closely with the laboratory which harkened back to his earliest days in the film business …—

Ron Magid

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The ad-free, clean interface hearkens back to the elder engine's early days. —

Theara Coleman, theweek, 5 Nov. 2024 Hathaway rocked a pair of heeled black over-the-knee boots that hearkened back to her covetable pair from The Devil Wears Prada, topping them with a floor-length military coat during an outing in New York City. —

Jamie Allison Sanders, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024 That hearkens back to the historical methods of making ice cream, Malek suggests. —

Gary Stern, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024 The case also hearkened back to New York City’s troubling history with subway vigilantism, drawing comparisons to Bernie Goetz. —

Victoria Bekiempis, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for hearken back