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Example sentences for "retrospectively"

Lexicographically close words:
retrogressions; retrogressive; retrospect; retrospection; retrospective; retrousse; retrouve; retrouver; retroversion; rets
  1. This regularity speaks moreover retrospectively in favour of the correctness of the classification.

  2. This is retrospectively a proof that the leaf-process is the respiratory process.

  3. A pragmatist as well as a rationalist may reply that it makes no difference retrospectively only because we leave out the most important retrospective difference).

  4. This is rationalistically and retrospectively empty; its being there makes no difference.

  5. Before him lay spread retrospectively the story of his parents' uneventful, happy marriage.

  6. And she hurried on, while Agnes tried to keep in step behind her, for the slight adventure outside the station became retrospectively terrifying.

  7. Fortunately for himself, he was not retrospectively jealous--jealous that is of the dead man of whom certain people belonging to his and to Nan's circle sometimes spoke of as "poor Jim Archdale.

  8. She considered it and him seriously, studying his face and eyes, listening retrospectively to the accent of his words, and immensely astonished him by suddenly flashing a kiss on his cheek.

  9. You say retrospectively you see that it was important.

  10. Retrospectively I see that this was important, that there may have been people involved.

  11. No law taxing retrospectively sales, purchases, or other acts previously done, ought to be passed.

  12. Seen retrospectively the main work of Wells has not been to promote any intellectual or economic doctrine, but to alter the English frame of mind.

  13. His hold upon the present is so far from inevitable that The New Machiavelli and Marriage, realistic as they are, are represented as being written some years hence, our own time already appearing retrospectively in them.

  14. This also for a time, much at his leisure, Adam Verver retrospectively fixed.

  15. Retrospectively the patient stated about this condition that she remembered going to the general hospital but not her stay at the Observation Pavilion.

  16. Case 7), whose activity was not entirely interfered with and who showed some thinking disorder, said retrospectively that she could not take in things.

  17. Retrospectively she stated, “I was so disgusted I went to bed--I just gave up hope.

  18. Case 6) said during the psychosis that her head was upside down and retrospectively that she had been mixed up, could not remember well, did not feel like talking.

  19. Georget emphasized the fact which Pinel had also noted, that retrospectively the stupor patient says his mind was a blank during the attack.

  20. This patient retrospectively recalled only certain periods of her deepest stupor, occasions when she was visited by her mother.

  21. One patient, who frequently showed this reaction, explained it retrospectively by saying that she wanted to be left alone.

  22. This is certainly indicative of a compulsive death idea and retrospectively she spoke of having refused food in order to die.

  23. Case 6), who had a partial stupor during which she answered questions but showed a great difficulty in thinking, said retrospectively that she felt mixed up and could not remember.

  24. Retrospectively she said she wanted to see all her ancestors from the beginning of time.

  25. Moreover, the patient retrospectively stated that she was unable to understand the questions, which points to marked difficulty in apprehension.

  26. Retrospectively the patient stated that she heard children on the street call “Katie.

  27. Retrospectively she said that she recalled feeling guilty, thinking that her mother was dead, having been killed by the patient as a result of worrying over the latter’s failure in her examinations and refusal to eat.

  28. The recollection sent the blood into the fine old cheeks and her hands were again clenched retrospectively upon that shapely bit of walnut and steel which had served her so well that day.

  29. He shifted restlessly to his elbow and built a cigarette; through its thin blue mist he waded retrospectively in the stream of memory.

  30. But how estimate the value of release from the “guaranty” retrospectively and prospectively, as well for past failures as future liabilities?

  31. It would be as difficult to measure in money the value of that guaranty, retrospectively and prospectively, as to measure in money our obligations to France in the assurance of national independence.

  32. And the Deceased Wife's Sister still undeceased, and to be legalized retrospectively on Wednesday!

  33. Suppose that when it comes it legitimates retrospectively every marriage that was not acknowledged void by both parties while it was still an unlawful one!

  34. Think of the story of retrospectively extended copyright and orphan works.

  35. Those who did not wish to have the legal monopoly could omit the phrase and the work would pass into the public domain, with a period of time during which the author could claim copyright retrospectively if the phrase was omitted by accident.

  36. Confucius joins, retrospectively of course, in the chorus of universal reprobation.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retrospectively" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.