He must have overshot the mark, and must hark back. So he turned his weary horse's head, and made his way back along the road to the spot where his spoor struck into it.
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Hark back
/ˌhɑːk ˈbæk/
Synonyms for "hark back" (48 found)
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Closest matches (10)
break backbring backbring to mindcall backcall to mindcall upchange backconjure upcry back
Verb(1 words)
come back
Strong matches (14)
Related words (24)
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Sample sentences
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Mr. Flemyng, who had been assuaging his thirst with more champagne during the afternoon, had harked back to the subject of his morning's discourse, and was laying down an authoritative scheme of ethics, in the course of which sundry hard words, such as transcendentalism, pseudo-materialism and the like, lost a syllable here and there.
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Harking back to the theme of a series of speeches he [George W. Bush] delivered last week, he said he was reminded that "there's still an enemy out there that would like to inflict the same kind of damage again."
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