How to Use flashback in a Sentence

flashback

1 of 2 noun

• He's having flashbacks of his days in the war.
• The character's childhood was described in a series of flashbacks.
• The very first scene was a flashback scene.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Nov. 2025
• How much did the flashbacks inform your work in the present?
  — Derek Lawrence, HollywoodReporter, 12 Jan. 2026
• In flashback, this god tells us what happened to her.
  — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
• For some, this might incite scary flashbacks to days at school.
  — Naomi Tomky, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2019
• The movie opens with a jarring flashback.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Feb. 2026
• Each scene is golden in the present day or crisply black and white in flashback scenes.
  — Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 25 Nov. 2024
• Maybe Foggy will just be seen in flashbacks.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
• One thing that baffled me a little were the flashbacks.
  — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 13 Jan. 2026
• Joaquin plays the younger version of Biff in flashbacks.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
• Further flashbacks spell things out.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
• And really, wouldn’t this have been a good time for a flashback?
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
• Of course, a flashback follows.
  — Frank Rizzo, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026
• Tell me about like bringing him into that with the flashback episode.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 17 June 2026
• And that’s all just in the few minutes of this episode before the flashback.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
• Harper proved that throughout all the flashbacks on the boat.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024
• Cal is still seen throughout the show, though only in flashbacks.
  — Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 15 Sep. 2025
• Now, remember, most of this episode has been a flashback.
  — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Feb. 2026
• Yes, there are people left out from getting their flashbacks.
  — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 24 Feb. 2026
• There are flashbacks that are Amy’s flashbacks.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
• But after those flashbacks, the story just moves on.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
• Her part involves a small scene in a flashback but required her to learn how to roller-skate.
  — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
• The episode opens with a flashback to Ramy and Amani in Egypt.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 3 June 2020
• The framing flashback scenes are also strong.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 19 June 2026
• Leila’s flashbacks took place while in the Mirror Room.
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2025
• Cue the next part of the flashback to that fateful night with Flambae.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
• The game was far from a flashback of the Bengals’ greatest hits.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 31 Dec. 2023
• The sound of gunfire recently came to her in a flashback for the first time in months.
  — New York Times, 13 Nov. 2021
• Every moment in the show is spent on the floor outside of some very brief flashbacks.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025

flash back

2 of 2 verb

• The first was to flash back to the schoolteacher with the soda.
  — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 17 May 2025
• Many of us reading that have flashed back to a similar event.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 29 July 2023
• The video flashes back and forth between color and black and white.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2024
• Will 'Big Brother' live feeds have the flash back feature this year?
  — David Wysong, The Enquirer, 11 July 2025
• Hedda’s smirk speaks volumes as the film flashes back to that fateful night.
  — Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025
• The movie then flashes back to reveal the unworldly events of the day before.
  — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 19 Apr. 2025
• Most guests recorded bits and snatches of mental film as the evening flowed on, scenes that will flash back for some time to come.
  — Gloria Steinem, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2024
• The trailer then flashes back to see the pair meeting earlier that day.
  — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Tony flashed back into my life recently when my son sent me a post telling Tony’s story.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 14 Nov. 2024
• Rose flashes back to being eight years old and playing with his best friends, whose mother died of cancer.
  — Sarah Grant, SPIN, 10 Apr. 2024
• That’s when the memory of a Dead show from his youth came flashing back as though drug-induced.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 31 July 2024
• The movie hops around in time, flashing back to Alex and Poppy’s past trips, but picks up in the present day.
  — Shannon Carlin, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
• The scenes then flash back and forth between the movie's present time and World War II.
  — Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 13 Aug. 2020
• An early scene flashes back to a young Anne, glued to the television, watching the game show.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
• But to the point of keeping it simple, there wasn’t any talk of filming any scenes that flash back to what Frank is talking about?
  — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2025
• Initially, only slivers of their true selves appear as the series flashes back and forth from the past to the present.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 3 Apr. 2025
• Towards the end of the episode, the series flashes back to Seung-hyo and Seok-ryu’s high school days.
  — Regina Kim, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
• As Gatlin runs through a maze in a glittery blue dress, the video flashes back to moments in her relationship.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2023
• But for a moment that presaged a post-Covid era of good feelings, flash back to February.
  — Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024
• In the premiere, there’s a glimpse of the tension at the cast photo shoot before flashing back to three months earlier, when all was well.
  — As Told To Lindy Segal, Glamour, 29 Jan. 2025
• The story flashes back to the birth of Elphaba, whose green skin shocks and scandalizes her parents.
  — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 19 Nov. 2024
• The film keeps flashing back in time, overlapping the backstories of its characters, and that’s part of its playful fizz.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Mar. 2026
• Over the course of their journey, the film flashes back to their wartime experiences, forcing each of the men to reflect on where the years have taken him.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
• Take the opening sequence, which flashes back to a 1908 carnival.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
• From there, the episode flashes back in time, and the audience witnesses the inflection points leading to this moment.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024
• At that moment, the cameras flash back to Kris, who is holding her napkin up to her face and pretending to hide from Khloé.
  — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2022
• His retelling of his life is non-linear, flashing back and forth between his childhood and his time in the public eye, which puts the focus on his fractured sense of self.
  — Shannon Carlin, TIME, 15 July 2024
• When Walls saw the graphic that Diggs had tied his record to start a season, his mind didn’t flash back to 1985.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2021
• However, before the audience can orient themselves into the scene, the series flashes back to six months in the past.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 23 Feb. 2025
• Sorry, but Andrew Wiggins isn’t flashing back to the spring of 2022 again, folks.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024