| We must clean house and send every one of these evolutionary throwbacks to the pond from which they slithered. |
| As already mentioned, one of the possible throwbacks to the past is our love of swimming. |
| The two aunts, originally meant to be stodgy and throwbacks to the Victorian age, come across immediately as warm, lovable eccentrics. |
| This year has seen a number of films that feel like throwbacks to the 70s, and I like that. |
| These atavistic hind legs are nothing less than throwbacks to a totally pre-whale stage of their existence, some fifty million years ago. |
| Come next year these unexceptional throwbacks might have mutated into cunning reinventors. |