Sentence example with the word 'throwback'

throwback

atavism, backward motion, descent, reaction, recrudescence, reflux, renewal, retrogradation, reversal, rollback

Definition adj. characteristic of an atavist

Last update: August 22, 2015


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While the rest of Ethel's wardrobe was nothing short of specĀ­tacular, her underwear was a throwback to another era.   [Please select]

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CHAPTER VII THE THROWBACK The Place was nine miles north of the county-seat city of Paterson.   [Please select]

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Knave, with an instinctive throwback to his wolf forebears of five hundred years earlier, dived for Lad's forelegs with the hope of breaking one of them between his foaming jaws.   [Please select]

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His breeding was as pure as was any champion's, but he was one of those luckless types to be found in nearly every litter--a throwback to some forgotten ancestor whose points were all defective.   [Please select]

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