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

On a Virginia peninsula, rather than a Virginia island, Guy and Gil Pruitt looked back over photos of their fathers on their boats and batted around the names of crabbing vessels and buy boats. — John Anglim, CNN Money, 11 Nov. 2026

Ciarán himself has spent an itinerant four years since Brockhampton’s dissolution in 2022 crafting Róisín, a solo debut that looks back through today’s bedroom-pop bricolage into the roomy vaults of D’Angelo and Prince. — H.d. Angel, Pitchfork, 9 Nov. 2026

The Danish filmmaker duo actually still fondly looks back at the experience shooting Perfect Road. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 Nov. 2026

But looking back, Nortman says none of that would have occurred without her belief in a personality test called the Enneagram. — Corynn Winston, CNBC, 8 Nov. 2026

Rhymes for look back

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