think back


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]

Words Nearby think back

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How to use think back in a sentence

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

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

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  • 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.

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