think back

Idioms and Phrases

Recall or reflect on, as in When I think back on my days as a summer camper, I really had a good time , or As he thought back to his father, long dead, tears came to his eyes . [Mid-1900s]

Example Sentences

Think back to the Bush-Kerry race of 2004, the Thrilla in Vanilla.

From The Daily Beast

When I think back to growing up in New Jersey, I realize it was a far different time for Palestinians than today.

From The Daily Beast

It was great to think back on not just that experience, but on why that film still resonates with people.

From The Daily Beast

The blankness had invited the mind to think back to mornings before September 11, when the mist had concealed the twin towers.

From The Daily Beast

"I think back on them days and it was all supposed to be so hip," he says.

From The Daily Beast

Can you think back still further to a time when the house in which you live had not been built?

From Project Gutenberg

Think back over those you have known who come under this heading and you will find no actually round-faced people amongst them.

From Project Gutenberg

Some of them I can already think back and see myself tugging at, and it makes me hot all over.

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I began to feel pretty miserable, and to think back into the past: I just heard Andy droning away by my side.

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As I think back to this transaction I am bitten by a kind of remorseful shame.

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