Sentence examples for back then must from inspiring English sources

We're grownups!" Trying to take care of the Muses and the Pixies back then must have been like corralling puppies.

Some theatergoers back then must have thought Carla Maxwell, the company's director, had made a peculiar choreographic choice, for in certain dance circles the abstractions of Mr. Louis and his longterm collaborator Alwin Nikolais were considered totally unrelated to the emotionally intense efforts of Mr. Limón and his own choreographic colleagues.

Back then it must have been an extraordinary sum.

"Back then it must have been another level, between the clashes, personalities and rude boys.

"I think that back then I must have lacked something in life experience to play Willy Loman's wife.

Even if friendlies were perhaps a modicum more meaningful back then, Venables must be gauged on England's heady campaign at Euro 96.

Thompson picked off the ball in full stride, and though you couldn't dunk back then, he must have been 12 feet off the ground when he dropped it in the basket.

We went to the movies all the time back then — I must have seen more than a hundred that year, counting double features — and while I appreciated the quality of these huge hits and in time learned them by heart, I treasured and tucked away in memory the eloquently awful movies that Hollywood also turned out back then, which, even more than the good stuff, made me a fan for life.

If the spear flies through, it isn't a boundary after all; if the spear bounces back, then there must be something beyond the supposed edge of space, a cosmic wall that stopped the spear, a wall that is itself in space.

(And the country was the other way up, economically speaking, back then. John Fay must have enjoyed writing the line "I know it's grim down south").

When I Instagrammed my new look, one friend commented: "That looks nothing like you!" Backhanded compliment it may have been but she did have a point – I'm not sure if it was the bright red lippy (back then, it really must have felt like "warpaint") or the fake flower in my hair but the whole experience left me feeling glamorous and confident enough to keep the look going for the rest of the day.