How to Use flashback in a Sentence

flashback

noun

• He's having flashbacks of his days in the war.
• The character's childhood was described in a series of flashbacks.
• In fact, the first half of Jigsaw (2017) is one big flashback.
  — Sage Anderson, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2023
• The strongest scene in the movie is the enactment, in flashback, of that fight.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
• The movies gave us the evocative cliffhanger and flashback.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Mar. 2023
• The game was far from a flashback of the Bengals’ greatest hits.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 31 Dec. 2023
• In the three-minute clip, Johnson speaks to fans while flashbacks of the group on tour and the band today flash across the screen.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2023
• The fifth episode this season was a flashback to the year 2000, when the Gemstone siblings are still kids.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2023
• The outcome was a scary flashback for the Kings, who led by 30 in Chicago on Feb. 3 before the Bulls came back to cut the deficit to three.
  — Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 5 Mar. 2024
• Instead of doing a flashback to catch up, part of the idea was to give you a novel view of her.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
• The show contained a flashback to when Will came out to Grace when the two were dating in college.
  — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 21 Sep. 2023
• The script called for flashbacks to happier times; Woo only had half a day to shoot the scene.
  — Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Find ways to cope with reminders of trauma and flashbacks.
  — Lauren Krouse, Verywell Health, 11 Nov. 2023
• The girl who became a ghost is introduced in the opening scene, a flashback set in 1992.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Jan. 2024
• The technique is not one of flashbacks from a dominant present tense.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2023
• At the same time, those flashbacks ground the whiz-bang stuff emotionally.
  — Vulture, 4 May 2023
• Ben also had a cameo on The King of Queens, playing his father during flashbacks of the show.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 21 Jan. 2024
• The players seemed to like it, a flashback to their high school days, to SRO crowds stuffed into a steamy gym on a Friday night.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2023
• This scene was also dramatized in the opera, in flashback.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2023
• These cultural flashbacks counter the current rush to make AI take over our lives.
  — Armond White, National Review, 6 Mar. 2024
• Is there any hope that maybe Ilsa will return in flashbacks?
  — Sean Abrams, Men's Health, 13 July 2023
• Even without the flashbacks, voters will have reason to stress.
  — Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• There's a long way to go with the whole Lottie story, especially in the flashbacks.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Mar. 2023
• For some New Yorkers, the poor air quality meant the return of masks and a flashback to the pandemic era.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
• Don Brochu: Dennis took the murder scene and made it into a flashback during the main title.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2023
• For many of the earliest episodes and quite a few flashbacks, Covey is in her home country Jamaica.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 10 Jan. 2024
• The show features flashbacks of the girl's memories with her late father, who was a tennis fan.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
• Of course, sometimes the theory dictates the flashback.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• Meanwhile, the decision to color switch isn’t always about flashbacks to the past.
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
• With flashback sequences shifting between their teen years at the time of the crash and their adult lives, the group attempts to move on from the past that continues to haunt them.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 14 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024