How to Use hark back in a Sentence

hark back

verb

• To hark back to the ’90s, finish the look off with The Row’s little black bag.
  — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2023
• But from the start, the song harked back to an earlier hit.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2024
• The fighting would hark back to the awful trench warfare of the First World War.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• His campaign speeches harked back to his first rise to power, in 1994.
  — Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 12 June 2023
• To many in the West, lead poisoning harks back to an earlier era.
  — Rachel Silverman Bonnifield, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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 vandalism, church officials said, harked back to threats made against Black churches in the 1800s by groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.
  — Keith L. Alexander and Rachel Weiner, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2023
• Speaking of which, one of the highlights is a stunning grand entrance hallway that harks back to The OWO’s storied past.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2024
• The collection harked back to a 1970s bohemian archetype.
  — Alice Pfeiffer, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024
• 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
• But — having been written, like the rest of these tracks, when the artist was 18 or 19 — the number does hark back to an era when girls (and Fall Out Boys) could just wanna have fun.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 July 2023
• Taliban hard-liners are turning back the clock in Afghanistan with a flurry of repressive edicts over the past days that hark back to their harsh rule from the late 1990s.
  — Kathy Gannon, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2022
• 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
• The place names that dot Texas’s parched plains hark back to a time more than a century ago when groundwater was plentiful.
  — Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• For years, however, old-timers reunited to hark back on life in the little valley town.
  — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 25 Oct. 2021
• This kind of dialogue harks back to the rom-coms in which Ryan starred, often written or directed by the late Nora Ephron.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• The restaurant has an intriguing Hollywood theme that harks back to the era of Humphrey Bogart.
  — Chelsea Davis, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• 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
• The level of risk harks back to two decades ago to the wave of violence known as the second intifada, when 12 medics were killed, according to the Red Crescent.
  — Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
• Ye says that even with the regional overlap, his flavor profiles hark back to his Zhejiang roots.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• Their video clips are more lo-fi, their fashion is rooted in schoolyard streetwear and their music harks back to the R&B and garage sounds that dominated the charts in the early '00s.
  — Topher Gauk-Roger, Peoplemag, 20 June 2023
• As for where the balance lies, though, if there is one, Robertson said that not everything in the score needed to hark back to that essential spirit.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 21 Oct. 2023
• Some of the restrictions the militants are imposing — burqas for women, long beards for men, forced attendance at mosques — hark back to their rule of the late 1990s.
  — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2021
• The new Goings On will hark back to those roots, recalibrated for the needs of the digital culture seeker.
  — The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• There is a mix of soft and hard, curvy and linear, that hark back to Barbie’s ’60s and ’70s past, such as a Pink marble coffee table and a walnut Polynet cabinet.
  — Jura Koncius, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
• The contest harks back to mining days when prospectors and their burros raced back to the town courthouse to stake a legal claim for gold, silver and other precious metals ahead of their competitors.
  — Heather Mundt, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2024
• What is clear, however, is that in harking back to 1917, Putin and his critics and adversaries alike were reaching for the wrong historical analogy.
  — Vladislav Zubok, Foreign Affairs, 28 June 2023

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024