How to Use callback in a Sentence

callback

noun

• She got constant callbacks from the salesman even after she asked him to stop calling.
• If he used better materials, he wouldn't have so many callbacks.
• Many shows have used finales as callbacks to their very first episodes.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2024
• Dance for the show will be done as part of the callback process Feb. 24-25.
  — Mark Rapp, cleveland.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• This, too, drew online snickers from the peanut gallery and was still was getting callbacks days later.
  — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2018
• Part of our callback process was to take the finalists through a mini training session.
  — refinery29.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• That would be disingenuous, but maybe limit it to a joke at the top of the show and then one midshow callback?
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018
• The crowd laughed at the callback to one of the most notorious moments in recent awards show history.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2024
• Ohio State is mostly over callbacks to the last two disappointing seasons.
  — Bill Landis, cleveland.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• As another callback, some protesters are wearing red bandanas around their necks, just as striking miners once did.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 27 Feb. 2018
• The abundance of light-saber battles, impressive space battles and callbacks to past movies in the series will please fans who eagerly greet every movie in the saga.
  — Mark Rapp, cleveland.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• At 12:30, three hours before, ah Baby Evan, ‘ah Papa have a callback?
  — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2024
• Musical Theatre Dance offers an opportunity to brush up on dance skills or learn choreography often found at dance callbacks.
  — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2018
• Every mini-adventure is neatly aligned with one another, and even the predictably sweet ending is saved from becoming too saccharine by a callback to the many, many shades of white available for a dryer.
  — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2024
• That’s when Mintz-Plasse came in the room for a third callback.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 17 Aug. 2022
• These were callbacks to some of the past opening shows over the last 30 years.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2024
• Is Swift's fake bob a callback to 1989 ahead of the rerelease?
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 12 Oct. 2023
• The tossing of buckets of chum in the second film is a callback to the use of it in the first.
  — Mark Kennedy, Detroit Free Press, 15 Aug. 2019
• The looks were a great callback to the moto-tinged days of Y2K fashion.
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2022
• And the day before the final callback, my mom passed away.
  — Kerry Lengel, azcentral, 15 May 2018
• Pie Jesu,’ was a callback to her choir days as a child.
  — Michael Williams, orlandosentinel.com, 13 June 2019
• The callback for the part of Sergio was on Wednesday, the day before at 3:00p.m.
  — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2024
• Lawrence jokes in a callback to Issa's job in the first season.
  — Anika Reed, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2021
• The video for the song is a callback to the drama and glamor of 18th century France.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 14 Apr. 2021
• Gwynn’s heroics in the opener were a bit of a callback to what happened at the end of the 2017 season.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 May 2018
• The wines being served are made stateside, but again with a callback to France.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
• The first line of the song is a fitting callback to the first line of Fearless’s title track, which opens the album.
  — Justin Curto, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2021
• To be sure, not all Disney callbacks are sure-fire hits.
  — Rebecca Rubin, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2019
• Consider this guest spot a callback to that movie, a nice nod for fans.
  — Allegra Frank, Vox, 2 July 2019
• This scene is more of a fun little callback to an earlier scene in the movie.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 5 May 2022

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024