hearken back

verb

variants or harken back

hearkened back or harkened back; hearkening back or harkening back; hearkens back or harkens back

intransitive verb

: to go back to or recall to mind something in the past : hark back

—usually used with to

This place caters to Americans and hearkens back to days when the town attracted famous celebrities.—

Barbara Zaragoza

Greenberg worked very closely with the laboratory which harkened back to his earliest days in the film business …—

Ron Magid

Examples of hearken back in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The existence of the list hearkens back to the department's controversial history with surveilling activists. —

Violet Ikonomova, Detroit Free Press, 17 Sep. 2024 The latest version of the FOX Box has been used since Super Bowl LVII between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles and still hearkens back to Hill’s clever idea. —

Jeff Fedotin, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024 In Ree’s blog post, which was actually a recap after her daughter Paige’s surprise engagement, Ree hearkened back to how the joyful moments in the Drummond family’s life make the hard ones that much more bearable. —

Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2024 Many of those re-releases were more than a decade old, hearkening back to the early days of the App Store when premium titles reigned and free-to-play games-as-a-service hadn't taken the wheel. —

Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 10 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for hearken back

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