Harkened Sentence Examples

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  • Platform shoes, glitter, excessively painted faces, colored and spiked hair, blouses that harkened back to the Victorian era, leather, feathers, bell bottoms, metallic fabrics and intense colors.

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  • When penning the Star Wars theme song, John Williams wanted a song that harkened back to Golden Age Hollywood cinema.

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  • This exploratory element harkened back to the early days of the original Trek series as conceived by Gene Roddenberry.

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