look back on

Example Sentences

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After a period of uncertainty, this superbly run club now look back on an even keel and ready to move forward once more - both in Europe and domestically.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

“It’s a 129-day shoot, but I look back on my ‘Survivor’ experience, and I’m like, ‘Dude, I did that and I can do this.’

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

I want to be the kind of dad that my kids look back on and think I was present and loving and the kind of person they’d look up to.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

When I look back on the energy shocks of the 1970s, there are certainly similarities to now in terms of the physical disruption to barrels of oil and cubic feet of gas.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

And that’s pretty much how I imagined it; what I never imagined is that the future reader might look back on any of this, or on my own peculiar experience, and say, “How quaint.”

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis