cast back

verb

1. adverb to turn (the mind) to the past

Example Sentences

I glanced at a man seated next to me, and the look he cast back mirrored the anxiety in my eyes.

From The Daily Beast

The letter was cast back into the box, locked up; there an end to it, or no interdiction of sleep.

From Project Gutenberg

If she was to be cast back into outer darkness again it would be better to know at once.

From Project Gutenberg

It is a centre of academic culture and learning, and has its thoughts not unfrequently cast back into a darker but splendid past.

From Project Gutenberg

"The fruit is the cankered effort of a barren tree," cast back Weng over his shoulder.

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She could have repudiated the cowardly charges made, and cast back the lies drawn round her to ruin her.

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