Thesaurus / looking back
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synonyms for looking back
- summon
- remind
- evoke
- cite
- awaken
- waken
- retrospect
- renew
- extract
- flash
- mind
- revive
- recollect
- educe
- reminisce
- elicit
- arouse
- reintroduce
- retain
- bethink
- rouse
- stir
- reestablish
- reinstate
- call to mind
- think back
- think of
- call up
- bring to mind
- come to one
- flash on
- look back
- nail it down
- ring a bell
- strike a note
- lament
- grieve
- repent
- bemoan
- apologize
- deplore
- moan
- bewail
- deprecate
- repine
- disapprove
- rue
- mourn
- weep
- miss
- be disturbed
- be sorry for
- cry over
- cry over spilled milk
- feel remorse
- feel sorry
- feel uneasy
- have compunctions
- have qualms
- kick oneself
- look back
- weep over
- commemorate
- get
- recall
- recognize
- remind
- learn
- revoke
- retrospect
- memorize
- extract
- treasure
- mind
- revive
- recollect
- educe
- reminisce
- elicit
- memorialize
- retain
- bethink
- enshrine
- cite
- bear in mind
- call to mind
- conjure up
- go back
- nail down
- think back
- look back
- relive
- know by heart
- brood over
- call up
- dig into the past
- dwell upon
- fix in the mind
- flash on
- have memories
- hold dear
- keep forever
- refresh memory
- ring a bell
- strike a note
- summon up
- remind
- remember
- recall
- review
- mind
- revive
- recollect
- retain
- bethink
- cite
- retrospect
- think back
- look back
- call up
- hark back
- live in the past
- muse over
- bear in mind
- conjure up
- recall
- recollect
- remember
- dig into the past
- have memories
- look back
- refresh memory
- summon up
- to remember
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How to use looking back in a sentence
I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
THE BOARDED-UP HOUSEAUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMANAges back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUSThe boys were tumbling about, clinging to his legs, imploring that numerous things be brought back to them.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINWith a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERShe was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINHe was the strangest-looking creature Davy had ever seen, not even excepting the Goblin.
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYLShe had listened—she had listened intently, looking straight out of the window and without moving.
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMESThe strains of the syren at last woke her uncle, and brought back Miss Hood, who suggested that it was late.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSDrowned every few seconds by our tremendous salvoes, this more nervous noise crept back insistently into our ears in the interval.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONI pictured him as slim and young looking, smooth-faced, with golden curly hair, and big brown eyes.
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