look back

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

What was intended to be an absurdist comedy act turned the second El Grande Americano into a folk hero as Kaiser ran with the gimmick and never looked back. — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026

Maybe future historians will look back on the pop mega-tours of this moment and see obvious COVID symptoms. — Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2026

Unlike most of his peers, the lead singer of the world’s greatest rock and roll band has never been one for looking back, even at the recent past. — Jem Aswad, Variety, 1 Aug. 2026

Chris Waugh and George Caulkin highlighted areas of progress, but there was also a line that, looking back, jumps off the page. — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for look back

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