How to Use callback in a Sentence

callback

noun
  • She got constant callbacks from the salesman even after she asked him to stop calling.
  • If he used better materials, he wouldn't have so many callbacks.
  • Dance for the show will be done as part of the callback process Feb. 24-25.
    Mark Rapp, cleveland.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Callbacks — like the Troll Doll from the first Guardians movie — abound.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 8 Apr. 2017
  • That’s when Mintz-Plasse came in the room for a third callback.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 17 Aug. 2022
  • These were callbacks to some of the past opening shows over the last 30 years.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2024
  • Is Swift's fake bob a callback to 1989 ahead of the rerelease?
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The tossing of buckets of chum in the second film is a callback to the use of it in the first.
    Mark Kennedy, Detroit Free Press, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The looks were a great callback to the moto-tinged days of Y2K fashion.
    André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2022
  • But two days later, Bay reached out to me to read for a callback.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 22 June 2017
  • And the day before the final callback, my mom passed away.
    Kerry Lengel, azcentral, 15 May 2018
  • Pie Jesu,’ was a callback to her choir days as a child.
    Michael Williams, orlandosentinel.com, 13 June 2019
  • The callback for the part of Sergio was on Wednesday, the day before at 3:00p.m.
    Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Lawrence jokes in a callback to Issa's job in the first season.
    Anika Reed, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2021
  • In the first episode, there are a lot of little callbacks to the original.
    Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The video for the song is a callback to the drama and glamor of 18th century France.
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Gwynn’s heroics in the opener were a bit of a callback to what happened at the end of the 2017 season.
    Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 May 2018
  • The wines being served are made stateside, but again with a callback to France.
    Emily Heil, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The first line of the song is a fitting callback to the first line of Fearless’s title track, which opens the album.
    Justin Curto, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2021
  • To be sure, not all Disney callbacks are sure-fire hits.
    Rebecca Rubin, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2019
  • Many shows have used finales as callbacks to their very first episodes.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Consider this guest spot a callback to that movie, a nice nod for fans.
    Allegra Frank, Vox, 2 July 2019
  • This scene is more of a fun little callback to an earlier scene in the movie.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • There are plenty of callbacks and Easter eggs for fans of the series.
    Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2024
  • As a callback to the old days of Pokémon, Pikachu is an obvious choice.
    Megan Farokhmanesh, The Verge, 30 May 2018
  • The callback has affected four brands: Tide, Gain, Ace and Ariel.
    Emilee Coblentz, The Courier-Journal, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The new verse appears to be a callback to how Lizzo was feeling last year.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2023
  • By the numbers, the highest achieving men received callbacks 16% of the time.
    Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 3 May 2018
  • Mirage is a bit of a rebel himself, and the callback to the classic buddy-cop movie just felt right.
    Stef Schrader, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Even the documentary’s name is a callback, an echo designed to reiterate that we might be done with the past, but the past is never done with us.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024

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