Example sentences for: flashbacks

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

  • 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."

  • Sequences of Derek as a skinhead are flashbacks and shot in febrile black-and-white.

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

  • 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.

  • They praise director Marleen Gorris ( Antonia's Line ) for retaining Virginia Woolf's stream-of-consciousness style (via voice-overs) and mingling of memory and reality (using flashbacks).


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