look back

phrasal verb

looked back; looking back; looks back

: to think about something in the past

Looking back to/at last season, I can see why they didn't win the pennant.

I look back at/on that time with a lot of pride.

How she's changed! After college, she moved to New York, got a job on Wall Street, and never looked back.

Examples of look back in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

With her new book, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves (out April 29 from Penguin Press), Gilbert looks back at the late 1990s and early aughts, endeavoring to find out what happened to feminism in the early 21st century. —Josh Zajdman, Vogue, 25 Apr. 2025

And maybe that comes with time, and people will look back at the recent seasons of Man City vs Liverpool games with the same reverence. —Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025

Here's a look back at how some signal callers drafted in the past few years have panned out. —Fox News Staff, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2025

The Pacers led 67-43 at halftime of Game 1 and never looked back en route to a statement win, 117-95, to open the series. —Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025

Rhymes for look back

• aback
• anzac
• attack
• backpack
• backtrack
• bareback
• blackjack
• brownback
• buyback
• callback
• cognac
• comeback