How to Use flash-forward in a Sentence

flash-forward

noun
  • In the flash-forward scenes, according to the timeline, those would’ve been late 2020.
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 20 June 2024
  • In the flash-forward, Marah gets married to her girlfriend, a doctor, with Tully by her side on the big day.
    Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The flash-forward montage near the end of the finale finishes with Ted waking up from a nap on his flight.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023
  • In the third episode, we’re treated to graduation ceremonies and a flash-forward to a couple of months on the job.
    Sam Russek, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The series used multiple timelines, showing stories that take place in the present as well as flashbacks to the siblings’ childhood and flash-forwards to later years.
    Kelly Martinez, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023
  • The series used multiple timelines, showing stories that took place in the present as well as flashbacks to the siblings’ childhood and flash-forwards to later years.
    Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The series used multiple timelines, showing stories that took place in the present as well as flashbacks to the siblings’ childhood and flash-forwards to later years.
    Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The series used multiple timelines, showing stories that took place in the present as well as flashbacks to the siblings’ childhood and flash-forwards to later years.
    Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 22 May 2024
  • In one prophetic flash-forward, Paul stands face-to-face with his sister (played by an uncredited Anya Taylor-Joy), though the events of the film take place entirely before her birth.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Then a flash-forward reveals that Pen and Colin have welcomed a baby boy, the heir to the Featherington family, and Colin has published his first book, with the help of his wife and best friend.
    Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2024
  • Where the flashback is actually a flash-forward [for Shauna’s daughter, played by Sarah Desjardins].
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Mar. 2023
  • With all its resolutions, new beginnings, and flash-forwards, the Six Feet Under finale really seemed to neatly wrap up the lives of the Fisher clan.
    Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 3 May 2024
  • Viewers get a taste of how many outfits Midge has worn throughout the series in the second episode of the final season, when a flash-forward shows Midge on 60 Minutes, auctioning off the pieces for charity.
    Emma Fraser, ELLE, 27 May 2023
  • And while Heather is evidently putting last season's drama behind her, the episode featured a dramatic flash-forward scene to the cast's trip to Bermuda, which will air later this season.
    Maggie Kreienberg, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
  • In the flash-forward, it's insinuated that they eventually get married as Tully is shown wearing a wedding ring.
    Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The wedding scenes are juxtaposed with flash-forwards to the present day, where adult Pete spends the afternoon with Uncle Tommy, and slowly realizes there's a desperately sad man underneath all that tough-guy bluster.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 3 May 2023
  • From this narrative baseline, the backstory tumbles out in all directions, sustaining a dizzying rally of flashbacks and flash-forwards across a decade-plus narrative span.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Reflecting that the end is nigh, several of the episodes incorporate flash-forwards, providing a tantalizing taste of the future Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) and how her showbiz career (and by extension, life) has gone.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The musical ends with a flash-forward to a holiday dinner, and a pregnancy, and a newborn, in a triumphalist sequence that suggests the anti-mask, anti-vaccine movement has liberated society at last.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2024
  • In contrast, modern television shows offer multiple storylines and characters, along with flashbacks, flash-forwards and dream sequences.
    Anna Mattson, Scientific American, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Every character is their own mystery box, pried open gradually through flashbacks (and flash-forwards, and another, polarizing, form of departure from the island that came to be known as flash-sideways).
    Judy Berman, TIME, 3 July 2024

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