How to Use flashback in a Sentence

flashback

1 of 2 noun

• He's having flashbacks of his days in the war.
• The character's childhood was described in a series of flashbacks.
• After the flashback, Kayce and Tate talk about the event.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 13 Nov. 2022
• There's no better way to ring in a new year than to have a flashback party that pays tribute to times gone by.
  — Hannah Jeon, Good Housekeeping, 16 Nov. 2022
• The kickoff special featured so many flashbacks to iconic moments through the last 39 seasons.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 14 Aug. 2024
• The idea made the flashback to Nawi’s birth equally suspenseful — is young Nanisca picking up the knife to kill the infant?
  — Dana Stevens, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• Annie’s flashback to that moment with her father, forty years earlier, involves a carpenter.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• There are lot of flashbacks and jumps to interrogations throughout the series, especially that first episode.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2024
• The novel is set over the course of the afternoon, early in the play’s run, when her father first watches it, with flashbacks to that summer in Sicily.
  — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2024
• But the flashback gave fans a glimpse into a caring and kinder side of Bunny, who just wanted to do right by the Arconia and its residents.
  — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2022
• But a show that tells its story over eight or 10 episodes, just to fill that space, can go off the rails with unnecessary side plots or flashbacks or anticlimactic pacing.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
• Schwartzman and screenwriter Brett Ryland braid these present-day scenes with flashbacks in an attempt to deepen our understanding of Lily.
  — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
• In fact, the first half of Jigsaw (2017) is one big flashback.
  — Sage Anderson, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2023
• The strongest scene in the movie is the enactment, in flashback, of that fight.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
• The movies gave us the evocative cliffhanger and flashback.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Mar. 2023
• The game was far from a flashback of the Bengals’ greatest hits.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 31 Dec. 2023
• In the three-minute clip, Johnson speaks to fans while flashbacks of the group on tour and the band today flash across the screen.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2023
• The fifth episode this season was a flashback to the year 2000, when the Gemstone siblings are still kids.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2023
• The outcome was a scary flashback for the Kings, who led by 30 in Chicago on Feb. 3 before the Bulls came back to cut the deficit to three.
  — Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 5 Mar. 2024
• Instead of doing a flashback to catch up, part of the idea was to give you a novel view of her.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
• The show contained a flashback to when Will came out to Grace when the two were dating in college.
  — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 21 Sep. 2023
• The script called for flashbacks to happier times; Woo only had half a day to shoot the scene.
  — Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Smith’s son, Forrest, plays a younger Lloyd in flashback scenes.
  — Mike Rose, cleveland, 15 Jan. 2023
• Find ways to cope with reminders of trauma and flashbacks.
  — Lauren Krouse, Verywell Health, 11 Nov. 2023
• The girl who became a ghost is introduced in the opening scene, a flashback set in 1992.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Jan. 2024
• The technique is not one of flashbacks from a dominant present tense.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2023
• At the same time, those flashbacks ground the whiz-bang stuff emotionally.
  — Vulture, 4 May 2023
• Ben also had a cameo on The King of Queens, playing his father during flashbacks of the show.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 21 Jan. 2024
• The players seemed to like it, a flashback to their high school days, to SRO crowds stuffed into a steamy gym on a Friday night.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2023
• On the twins' 7th birthday here's a flashback to the pregnacy heard around the world and a glimpse into their budding lives.
  — Caché McClay, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024

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flash back

2 of 2 verb

• His retelling of his life is non-linear, flashing back and forth between his childhood and his time in the public eye, which puts the focus on his fractured sense of self.
  — Shannon Carlin, TIME, 15 July 2024
• The scenes then flash back and forth between the movie's present time and World War II.
  — Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 13 Aug. 2020
• Many of us reading that have flashed back to a similar event.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 29 July 2023
• When Walls saw the graphic that Diggs had tied his record to start a season, his mind didn’t flash back to 1985.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2021
• Most guests recorded bits and snatches of mental film as the evening flowed on, scenes that will flash back for some time to come.
  — Gloria Steinem, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2024
• An early scene flashes back to a young Anne, glued to the television, watching the game show.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
• As Gatlin runs through a maze in a glittery blue dress, the video flashes back to moments in her relationship.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2023
• At that moment, the cameras flash back to Kris, who is holding her napkin up to her face and pretending to hide from Khloé.
  — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2022
• Rose flashes back to being eight years old and playing with his best friends, whose mother died of cancer.
  — Sarah Grant, SPIN, 10 Apr. 2024
• Over the course of their journey, the film flashes back to their wartime experiences, forcing each of the men to reflect on where the years have taken him.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 May 2024
• When the clip flashes back to the home, Williams is still stationed on the floor there — arms wrapped around an exhausted version of herself seeking comfort.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
• His mind flashed back to the night before — at the team hotel in Owings Mills, Maryland — when the Chiefs held their quarterback meeting with coaches.
  — Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2024
• Although there are three present-day timelines, Wolk says the first season continues to flash back to the college years, creating a fourth one.
  — Danielle Turchiano, Variety, 20 Sep. 2021
• Safuora, 47, would flash back to life more than 20 years ago, fleeing the Taliban, which killed members of her family.
  — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Aug. 2021
• As the visuals flash back to a younger Chiu picking up takeout in a dingy Hong Kong eatery, the scene does little but emphasize Chiu’s otherness.
  — Amanda Chen, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2022
• Both seasons take place over the course of a week, begin with the revelation of a mysterious death and then flash back to the guests' waterborne arrivals.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2022
• The Acolyte’s third episode flashes back to the twins’ childhood with their two late mothers, who were part of a witchy, all-female space coven and created Mae and Osha without a father.
  — Abby Monteil, Them, 24 June 2024
• As the doctors of Grey Sloan battle the virus, Grey’s Anatomy will also flash back to the immediate aftermath of season 16.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 12 Nov. 2020
• Freewheeling through time and flashing back to events depicted in the series, El Camino picks up right where Breaking Bad left off, and includes a host of cameos from the show's five-season run.
  — EW.com, 18 Jan. 2024
• The Quinta Brunson comedy picked up five months into the school year, only flashing back to the beginning of the year at the show’s central school, in order to sync up with real life.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2024
• Instead, both seasons immediately flash back to the beginning of a resort stay that ends in tragedy.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
• The second episode then flashes back to the events leading up to the disappearance, with Margaret meeting Mercy by chance, and courting her to help care for Gus and his older siblings.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 27 Jan. 2024
• The book begins at Oppenheimer’s funeral and then flashes back to his childhood, before churning on through the prewar years and the development of the bomb.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 29 Jan. 2024
• Every time Nalini and Devi flash back to Mohan, they are transported somewhere else.
  — Abby Govindan, Vulture, 15 July 2021
• The movie then flashes back to the trio as teens, when the prodigal Tashi and doubles partners/friends Art and Patrick have a three-way makeout session in a hotel room that sparks evolving relationships between them.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2024
• In the 22-second preview, old footage flashes back to the singer’s earliest musical memories.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2023
• Azra’s relationship with her mother, Mariam, is strained, but Azra’s arrival forces Mariam to recall her own childhood and flash back to 1969 Pakistan.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
• After opening with the musician creating the song in a recording studio, the film flashes back to Carpenter, 23, gifting him a new piano for his birthday.
  — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023
• While the temptation for some is to flash back to the financial crisis of more than a decade ago, industry figures say action taken by the federal government and the financial markets should be enough to reassure the public.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 14 Mar. 2023
• The narrative flashes back and forth between their plight and the same group (or rather, the survivors) a quarter-century later, each harboring secrets and in some instances emotional wounds regarding what transpired.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024