Sample sentences for RETROSPECT

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Definition

to review with hindsight (with the understanding that comes after seeing how things turned out)

In retrospect, I wish we had done things differently.

retrospect = to review with hindsight

In retrospect, I probably could not have picked a worse time.
Stephen Chbosky -- The Perks of Being a Wallflower

retrospect = to review with hindsight

Again Judith groaned; this time no feeling of self, no retrospect of the past caused the pain.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Deerslayer
We were adamantly self-reliant—maybe, in retrospect, to the point of being prideful.
Todd Burpo -- Heaven Is for Real
In retrospect, it all seemed an elaborate act to usher the condemned onto their stage.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
It seemed even sadder, in retrospect, beside the bustle and prosperity of Atlanta.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
—It is, in fact, a most mortifying retrospect for me.
Jane Austen -- Emma
In the retrospect it is strange to remember how soon I fell in with these monsters' ways, and gained my confidence again.
H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr. Moreau
"I was more frightened in retrospect," he said.
Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
In retrospect, it was in rather bad taste, but I didn't know what would befall him.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
The woman did not see well, or saw two things where one occurred, and her hand on the child's face seemed to work a marvel of retrospection.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

She seemed sympathetic but, come to think of it in retrospect, she and Jason may have been in on it together.
Chris Kyle -- American Sniper
The short dialogue with Priscilla in the garden had determined the current of retrospect in that frequent direction this particular Sunday afternoon.
George Eliot -- Silas Marner
Neither did I. Nothing could touch us, I see in retrospect, except the emotions of that moment.
Robert Cormier -- After the First Death
A period of introspection, a space of retrospection, then a mixture of both.
Zora Neale Hurston -- Sweat

'Well, never mind,' he added hastily, as if ashamed in retrospect of his surprise attack.
Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
"A very serious error in judgment, don't you think, in retrospect?
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
That was wrong, in retrospect, as their interests proved to be in conflict.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
"In retrospect," he said, "perhaps the raid on the Dumort was not as well-planned as it might have been.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones
I assigned it to the Trench Rats solely because of you, but in retrospect that might have been a mistake.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom

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