I have a tendency to just speed answer my reviews. What happens is i miss a lot of brain programming on the context and usage of the terms. Any tricks out there that you’ve used to force yourself to read the sentences?
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I don’t have any tricks in particular, but I do definitely make a conscious choice to properly read (or not read) the sentences. If I am busy on a given day, I just speed through them (only reading the sentence if I need the extra nuance). If I have extra time, I will make sure to read everything. When I do that, I read it all, look up any unknown words, and then try to come up with my own translation before checking the answer.
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I struggle with it, but it helped me a lot to do the reading mode 
I did the reading mode for all the grammar first and then the Cloze fill-in. I find that it’s much easier to read the entire sentence before filling in because my reading is decent.
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If I see furigana, I will want to read the sentence just to get the first rep of a new word. After seeing it once, I manually turn it off for that specific word only. If I don’t see furigana, that means I at least have seen every word and their readings, so the sentence should be easier to approach.
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After encountering and participating in this thread I made the decision to switch to a nuance-first approach to my hints, without the translation by default. Similar to @lunchbox1, when I’m doing my reviews and I’m busy, then I’ll go ahead and reveal the translation and the hint/sentence translation to speed things up. This is usually what I do during the workday.
Once I’m home from work, I usually have the extra time, so then I will try and read through the sentences and hints in Japanese before making my mental guess. Since I’m still early in my journey and can’t always decipher the text, I will then reveal the nuance translation first, and if necessary, the hint/sentence translation to make sure I’m answering the question that I think I am.
Right now I’m trying to maintain quantity of reviews, so reading the sentences themselves is secondary to me while I build the foundation of knowledge. I still have another 500 vocab items to complete N5 on Bunpro, so most of the things I see in the sentences are new to me and slow down my reviews a LOT.
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