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.

  • Voice-over narration, once considered uncinematic, is back in style, along with novelistic asides, digressions, fantasies, and 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.

  • We learn all this from flashbacks and from a strange oracle called Gary "Figgs" Figgis (Ray Liotta), who, when drunk, can't seem to stop himself from spewing exposition.

  • Mrs. Dalloway's flashbacks are of the Masterpiece Theatre variety when they ought to have been less objective, more impressionistic, even if such doodling had come at the expense of a full-bore narrative thrust.


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