look back
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.61 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To think of (past events) in retrospect (in hindsight).
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, back.
noun
Alternative form of look-back.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: recollect, recall, remember"
- "When I look back at my summer holidays as a child, I smile."
- "I can't tell you what you're feelin' inside / And I can't sell you what you don't want to buy / Something's missing, you got to look back on your life / You know something here just ain't right"
- "United were made to pay for letting an eight-point lead as little as five weeks ago slip and, despite their final-day efforts, they will look back on a season where, when they needed to step up, they fell flat."
- "For Crossrail 2, people on this project a few years ago hoped they would move directly on to that. "Obviously, politics and money haven't come together in the same way as they did for Crossrail 1, but I've said to the team that if you look back at everything from HS1 and the Channel Tunnel, these things always happen... but the question is timing. […] "The Jubilee Line is another one. It seems very unlikely, with these transformational things, that people will look back in a few decades' time and think we shouldn't have built it."
- "You do what you have to do, and don't look back."