Example sentences for: flashback

How can you use “flashback” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As a flashback.)

  • It opens with the return to England of its eponymous hero, and uses a combination of linear narrative and flashback to tell a story that spans several decades.

  • In flashback, he has his way with one ("When I fook someone, they stay fooked") and sends the other into a decadelong swoon; in the present, he appears as a slick, enigmatic real-estate agent who refuses to acknowledge his previous persona.

  • When Baltus Van Tassel (Michael Gambon), the town's richest citizen, intones the story of the Hessian who lopped the heads off revolutionaries for sheer love of butchery, the flashback is mythic in its ghastliness: Christopher Walken--his hair swept up, with boiled eggs for eyes and teeth like sharp spikes--wheels, hacks, impales, and drenches the snow with gore.

  • He identifies unavoidable references to Hiss only in footnotes, and finally presents their relationship in a brief flashback in the course of detailing the trials.


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