Sentence examples for a throwback the proportion from inspiring English sources

Surprisingly in an era of new psychoactive substances, MDMA and cocaine, in which heroin is viewed as a throwback, the proportion of these deaths involving the drug is creeping up.

He is, instead, a throwback, among the last of the Tin Pan Alley songsmiths.

It's a throwback to the IBM of the 1960s.

Certainly the ad's a throwback to the Bush ways.

The blog is a throwback featuring the best New York Times vintage photographs.

In some ways, the governor is a throwback to the so-called D.L.C.

The setting was a throwback to the grooms' childhood.

The architecture is a throwback to the late 18th Century.

Blank check offerings, a throwback to the "blind pools" of the 1980s, are proliferating.

Unlike the more commercial clubs, Rosa's is a throwback to the roots of Chicago blues.

For the younger generation, though, Park Geun-hye embodies a throwback to the bad old days.