flashback

Example Sentences

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But Ella’s family life has always been chaotic, as we see in flashbacks to her teenage years, wherein our narrator describes how Ella experiences seeing other happy families — as a stab in the heart.

From Los Angeles Times

Users on Reddit said a clip showing The Ghoul - one of the show's central characters, played by actor Walton Goggins - was wrongly described in the AI narration as a "1950s flashback".

From BBC

Once he was a scientist, but that time in his life, as we will discover through wrenching flashbacks, was destroyed, forcing him to change his identity and ponder fleeing Brazil.

From Los Angeles Times

"I still get flashbacks of that scene in the gym, it was just horrendous."

From BBC

This sets up a long flashback in which we learn that Marian and Edison knew each other in college, and that he betrayed her.

From Los Angeles Times