How to Use flash-forward in a Sentence

flash-forward

noun

• And didn’t last season close with a flash-forward to a future without him?
  — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025
• That [flash-forward] gives the idea of an entirely new life that a lot of these people have.
  — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
• Wednesday’s episode opens with (of course) a flash-forward, this time of Joan sniffling back tears on a ship.
  — Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 30 Oct. 2024
• The issues the pair had were too big to get addressed further or resolved in the flash-forwards in the series finale.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2025
• The flash-forward montage near the end of the finale finishes with Ted waking up from a nap on his flight.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023
• In the flash-forward scenes, according to the timeline, those would’ve been late 2020.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 20 June 2024
• In the third episode, we’re treated to graduation ceremonies and a flash-forward to a couple of months on the job.
  — Sam Russek, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
• In the flash-forward, Marah gets married to her girlfriend, a doctor, with Tully by her side on the big day.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
• This interaction will be paid off at film’s end, when the action flash-forwards to 2025.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 18 May 2025
• Early on, the action is set in historical perspective by means of flash-forwards.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2024
• There’s flashbacks to things that happened five minutes earlier and flash-forwards to how a stunt could look instead of just getting on with it.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
• So, what to make of the flash-forwards (approximately six months into the future) at the very end of Season 3?
  — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2024
• Zion is an excellent, empathetic anchor for viewers when shots fire in the season's opening flash-forward.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2025
• These three youths share goofy, creepy smiles among themselves, made meaningful when the directors cross-cut flash-forwards of domestic life, game life, gang life, and lonely life.
  — Armond White, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025
• The series used multiple timelines, showing stories that took place in the present as well as flashbacks to the siblings’ childhood and flash-forwards to later years.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 22 May 2024
• The series used multiple timelines, showing stories that took place in the present as well as flashbacks to the siblings’ childhood and flash-forwards to later years.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 15 Apr. 2024
• The series used multiple timelines, showing stories that took place in the present as well as flashbacks to the siblings’ childhood and flash-forwards to later years.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2024
• The series used multiple timelines, showing stories that take place in the present as well as flashbacks to the siblings’ childhood and flash-forwards to later years.
  — Kelly Martinez, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023
• The season began, as all seasons of the HBO series do, with a flash-forward to a death that will hang over the entire season.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025
• That scene is directly followed by flash-forwards to tourists in the present day admiring a riverbank spot where the adult Kafka would always rest after a swim.
  — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
• The series opened with a flash-forward to gunshots at the resort, and a glimpse of a body in the water, and the series has so far made continual references to tsunamis and death by drowning.
  — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
• Somewhere between the two timelines that the show introduced was a wilderness flash-forward of a girl in a white dress running for her life, barefoot through snow, who is then impaled and eaten by her friends.
  — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
• Lohan took to Instagram to share a preview clip from the new episode, which will involve a flash-forward where the Simpsons children have gotten older.
  — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 14 Dec. 2025
• In the flash-forward, it's insinuated that they eventually get married as Tully is shown wearing a wedding ring.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
• Where the flashback is actually a flash-forward [for Shauna’s daughter, played by Sarah Desjardins].
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Mar. 2023
• The episode ended with a flash-forward of Conrad and Belly a few years in the future returning to the summer house together for the first time as a couple.
  — Stephanie Wenger, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
• So flash-forward a couple years, and there weren’t enough employees using the office space, according to Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the matter.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2024
• That cliffhanger leads into what will be a tragic finale, opening up with the ‘90s power couple finding themselves in a rocky place, as was teased in the flash-forward first moments of the premiere.
  — Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026
• From this narrative baseline, the backstory tumbles out in all directions, sustaining a dizzying rally of flashbacks and flash-forwards across a decade-plus narrative span.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2024
• Poehler later shared that the Parks and Rec finale, which features flash-forwards for all of the main characters, was inspired by the end of Six Feet Under.
  — Daysia Tolentino, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2025