Example sentences for: hindsight

How can you use “hindsight” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A different, more active GOP House election strategy might have worked better, but it might also have required that Gingrich take a higher profile (and, inevitably, attack Clinton); 2) Bet if you'd asked Clinton's aides in the spring of 1998 whether they'd rather have an unencumbered Gingrich or a subdued Gingrich, they would have picked the latter--even if, in hindsight, that might have been a mistaken calculation.

  • Even with the benefit of hindsight, Jarrah hardly seems a likely candidate for becoming an Islamic extremist.

  • Bell's fleeting discussion of the "sixties" cultural events--so in the foreground of American life circa 1973--is somewhat startling with hindsight.

  • The certainty that this was an unnecessary war, not merely in hindsight but in the context of that time, also makes the astronomical costs that resulted from it during 1965-1973 that much more difficult to contemplate.

  • Hindsight can sometimes see the past clearly-with 20/20 vision.


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