Example sentences for: flashbacks

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

  • Read the book to learn what he's thinking and feeling, because all Gorris gives us is a guy grimacing on a couch and a lot of distant explosions to signal his flashbacks.

  • The film unfolds in flashbacks, as Ellen is interviewed by a district attorney about the circumstances of her mother's death, but the framing device doesn't generate any suspense, and the linking scenes are so clumsily overwritten that the woman might be talking to her therapist.

  • The novel unfolds in the cinematic style that Didion has made her own: flashbacks, flash-forwards, crosscuts, staccato bursts of dialogue, now and then "a montage, music over."

  • The online Times offers a daily "Whitewater, Etc." update, as well as flashbacks to Whitewater coverage from a year and two years ago.

  • "Boilerplate," says the Los Angeles Times ' Kenneth Turan, pointing out that the flashbacks are cheesy, the characters stock, and the themes, such as the subplot about unrequited love, tired.


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