Example sentences for: flashbacks

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

  • Others say it's muddled by poorly demarcated flashbacks and instances of incomprehensible Dutch humor.

  • 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.

  • Paradoxically, though, while it's often used as part of insanity pleas, PTSD implies not that its victims are crazy, but rather that they aren't . Before PTSD became a recognized disorder, after all, a Vietnam veteran suffering from hallucinatory flashbacks and wild mood swings looked, to the benighted layperson at least, nuts.

  • 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."

  • Roy's inventive narrative style (multiple flashbacks, rotating narrators) and "the exuberant, almost acrobatic nature of the writing itself" (Alice Truax, the New York Times Book Review ) are singled out as breathtaking.


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