Sentence examples for harken back from inspiring English sources

"harken back" is an acceptable phrase in written English.
It means to recall or remember something from the past. For example, "We decided to harken back to our childhood days and make some ice-cream with our old hand-crank machine."

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harken back

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Syfy's Saturday-night movies harken back to the so-called "creature feature" days of local television.

All fundamentalisms harken back to a supposedly purer historical era of simple belief.

Grayson and O'Dell construct their history to sound the alarm, not to harken back to the good old days.

As for the final season, he said it would "harken back to the roots" of the show in the death of the character of Mary Alice.

On a female figure, spikes sticking out of the head harken back to the bear claws that adorned Demento's warm-up outfit.

In the meantime, longtime residents are left to harken back to that first crowd that had to endure an invasion of newcomers, the Montauket tribe.

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"It harkens back to this extraordinary intervention".

This harkens back to some of our first civilized societies.

ReCore's platforming gameplay harkens back to the GameCube era.

Its dazzling showmanship harkened back to older cinematic experiences.

The eight-hour workday harkens back to 19-century socialism.

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