How to Use think back in a Sentence

think back

phrasal verb
Definition of think backnext
  • Then, think back on the weather over the last few days.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 7 Feb. 2024
  • But think back to the 1,400 Israelis that were slaughtered.
    — CBS News, 5 Nov. 2023
  • But Belly keeps thinking back to her and Conrad’s last trip to the beach.
    — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 14 July 2023
  • Aly thinks back to the day Wadea was brought home from the hospital after he was born.
    — Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2023
  • So much so, that even Ciara couldn’t help but think back to her days of shopping at Gap as a young child.
    — Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But just like the dispute between Issa and Ramirez, the two are trying to keep what Michelin thinks back of mind.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Villarreal thought back then that joining the league would be a game-changer.
    — Brett Vito, Dallas News, 28 June 2023
  • Harris thinks back fondly of her time in Cranston’s office.
    — Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Sandy couldn't help but think back to her last conversation with Stephen a week before he was killed.
    — Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2023
  • And as her son is enshrined among the greatest in pro football history, Brown will think back to their prayers all of those years.
    — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2024
  • Now add in a relationship, and the trip gets harder (think back seat driver who might be a spender and who wants to take detours all the time).
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Although that was quite a while ago, Campos says to try and think back to the months surrounding that time period.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 16 Oct. 2023
  • To be in such a huge space with so many people, in utter silence — thinking back, I was relieved no one’s phone had rung.
    — New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Mayer: So Vera thought back to her work on Hodgkin lymphoma, and her knowledge of how disease spreads.
    — Amy Scharf, Scientific American, 11 Jan. 2024
  • But thinking back to that moment, that would’ve been an appropriate time to scream.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2024
  • There was a little sadness there, thinking back to the carefree memories of my youth.
    — Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Wu thought back to Ian Morgan’s research, which had found that Australian kids spent an average of 13.5 hours a week outside.
    — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
  • As the game evolved and the city hoops landscape reshaped around him, Thompson often thought back to how special and competitive that time was.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2024
  • Dressed in varying combinations of black and white, with Bridgers’ Black pug, Maxine, snorting gently in her lap, the trio thought back on some of the major events of 2023.
    — Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • So think back—no recollections of Mr. Samples at all? . . .
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Mary thought back to that solo room her mother was given after her injury, with no extra charge.
    — AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2023
  • For what that means, think back to May of this year: What were the rapid changes, sudden upsets, and radical endings and beginnings taking form in your life then?
    — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Taylor Hanson seems to get nostalgic when thinking back to the early days of his band Hanson—and of social media.
    — Marisa Whitaker, SPIN, 7 June 2024
  • There’s a particular game that stands out for Ortiz when thinking back on Darnold’s meteoric rise in the early years.
    — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 19 July 2024
  • Just thinking back to those scenes from the steps of the Portrait Gallery (not some shiny, new, generic real estate development) gives me goosebumps.
    — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The writer, actor, musician and comedian is still thinking back fondly to his time acting in some of the biggest kids' shows of the 90s.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
  • But Cahill only had to think back to her childhood for inspiration to continue.
    — Kat Cornetta, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
  • When thinking back on all the characters in the Walking Dead‘s history, the collective season five series regulars are the ones who all come to mind.
    — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Where Michael Phelps was seemingly constructed to swim laps around everyone with his 6-foot-4 frame and 79-inch wingspan — think back to the image of Phelps flapping his arms around his chest and back — Marchand looks, well, average.
    — Scott Bordow, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2023
  • Levi McConaughey is thinking back about a special community service experience.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2023

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