hindsight

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

But they were important component parts of it, and in hindsight, they told us something important: that women were showing up, online and off, advocating for themselves and each other.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

In hindsight, Gough said, he didn’t raise prices as much or as fast as he should have.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

“In hindsight I would rather we’d never have gone,” Atkinson told me.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

He says the updated supply deal “is obvious in hindsight given the continued and escalating tensions between China and Japan.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

What we need is a form of hindsight that does not impose itself arbitrarily on the mentality of the revolutionary generation, does not presume that we are witnessing the birth of an inevitable American superpower.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis