Sentence examples for retrospectively i from inspiring English sources

"Retrospectively, I think I would've done it differently, but then I never would've met Mr. Hess".

"Retrospectively, and only retrospectively, I absolutely wish he had died at that moment.

Retrospectively, I think I might have mentioned something about a horse.

Her grief is always described fleetingly and retrospectively – "I ran a bath… I cried.

God help us if it's applied retrospectively: I know a lot of adults who would have their adult status revoked.

"Retrospectively, I realized that the spot that the mummichogs went towards was the first place where the sunlight shined in the morning," he said.

(Does such correctness apply retrospectively, too, I wonder? I imagine Sebastian Flyte and Father Brown being thus retro-fitted).

Retrospectively if it works I can pretend I knew what I was doing.

Another Canadian retrospectively proclaimed "I think it's the best money I've ever spent" (n.p).

"Retrospectively now I say, yes, that plan needed to be improved".

However, calls for the centre-forward to be banned retrospectively will, I hope, fall on deaf ears.