How to Use fast-forward in a Sentence

fast-forward

noun

• Close your eyes and fast-forward six months.
  — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 28 Mar. 2026
• This is the same, but played on fast-forward.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2025
• There's no fast-forward button.
  — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
• Now fast-forward to May 9, 65th minute.
  — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 24 Dec. 2025
• The wedding, in my memory, is a fuzzy home movie on fast-forward.
  — Joan Niesen, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
• Users can view the forecast for any location but cannot fast-forward or pause the segment.
  — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2026
• The deal with Roche represents a fast-forward case study of just how lucrative that can be.
  — Damian Garde, STAT, 24 Oct. 2023
• Both managers’ careers seem to be in fast-forward, even if the precise nature of their jobs is different.
  — Michael Cox, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
• The action will then fast-forward to the flop, with the entire table entered with whatever hole cards they were dealt.
  — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2024
• The next scene fast-forwards to the present, where Gigi is passed out in a bed in Hollis’s house after a bender.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 9 July 2026
• Here, Mercury is all about quick thinking and mental agility, as if your brain were on fast-forward, jumping from one idea to the next.
  — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 27 May 2025
• Now fast-forward to the game’s final minute, and people holding certain betting tickets were sweating.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2024
• Now, set your time machine on fast-forward, to the mission era, the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• But fast-forward a few decades, and the revolution’s wearing a red baseball cap and yelling at the ruling class on social media.
  — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2025
• Well, fast-forward to yesterday, and her prediction is looking better and better.
  — Kelly Evans, CNBC, 3 Feb. 2026
• Let’s not fast-forward too far from that magical proposal at the Newport Ball in the finale.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2025
• But fast-forward to the present day and skateboarding has become a popular pastime with plenty of newbies learning to skate.
  — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 8 May 2026
• Still, the fourth-year general manager has kept himself from pressing the fast-forward button in his plan to make the Sharks great.
  — Eric Stephens, New York Times, 28 June 2026
• Not only that, this group likes to fast-forward through programs and cherry-pick favorite clips, all while multitasking across multiple screens.
  — Jennifer Silverman, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2026
• The earlier installments sold well, so hopes are high for the new season as the action fast-forwards to the 1970s.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
• At some point Davidson is going to need to acquire players who can help fast-forward the rebuild, instead of draft picks who might be helpful five years from now.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Mar. 2026
• Then fast-forward to December and that awful 4-2 defeat at Brentford.
  — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025
• Compared to Noriega, Maduro’s downfall happened in fast-forward.
  — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 3 Jan. 2026
• According to the press release, Big Little Truths fast-forwards to the kids of Monterey’s teenage years.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 19 Mar. 2026
• Not many rebuilding teams ever have this kind of asset available, and nailing the deal could fast-forward a rebuild significantly.
  — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
• Each season, For All Mankind fast-forwards into the future, hurling its characters into the next decade.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2023
• Invoke every great baritone or Appalachian song-speaker in the genre's history, then fast-forward to the current moment.
  — Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 19 June 2025
• The series is true to its body-horror ambitions, including plenty of unfiltered childbirth scenes that could have the faint of heart hitting the fast-forward button.
  — Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Apr. 2026
• Life fast-forwards these reactions with enzymes, enabling microbes to seize the energy that would otherwise dissipate.
  — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2025
• Five years is a long time, especially in a car industry permanently on fast-forward to meet looming bans on internal combustion.
  — WIRED, 6 Sep. 2023