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hark back

VERB
  1. go back to something earlier
    This harks back to a previous remark of his

How To Use hark back In A Sentence

  • These diasporic texts consistently hark back to colonialism and neocolonialism.
  • Archiepiscopal visitation: the term itself seems to hark back to a medieval era. Times, Sunday Times
  • The result devastated me at the time. Even now I hark back to it.
  • Jackson's comment and the group's name hark back to the nation's revolutionary beginnings in its tax revolt against England, and the Fourth of July holiday this weekend has become a rallying cry for supporters who plan a rally in San Antonio, a fair in suburban Atlanta and more. Yahoo! News: Top Stories
  • Both of the Evening Canticles are in his own idiomatic style, and hark back, in different ways, to ancient, time-hallowed chant.
  • CROWLEY: And I kind of hark back to something that someone close to Michael Bloomberg once said, which was he didn't get this wealthy wasting his money. CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2007
  • Who in their right mind would hark back to those days? Times, Sunday Times
  • Who in their right mind would hark back to those days? Times, Sunday Times
  • The elves constantly hark back to an earlier, prelapsarian world. Times, Sunday Times
  • Traditional communities, that the word hark backs to, were people with weak ties. Comments at Boxes and Arrows
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