Examples of throwback

• Or they may be just a throwback to the old days when every phone number began with a real word, called an exchange.

• The idea that districts should circle a group of voters who share a set of distinct interests is a historical throwback to the colonial and medieval origin.

• Fisher men who abide by size limits first use casual inspection to sort their catch into keepers and throwbacks.

• It is the acts of barbarity, a throwback from the past; it is the violence that we have lived with for so long.

• That is a throwback to the neoclassical economics idea that macro-economics is merely micro-economics writ large.

• It is a throwback to the 1960s and it deserves the support of no one.

• Is not it about time that we got rid of that throwback to medieval times?

• In my view, the attitude is a throwback to the era of obsessive secrecy which should be over.