flashback

Example Sentences

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Or was it a flashback to his old self?

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

The Bannau Brycheiniog provided the backdrop for a Chinese village in a flashback scene, something du Preez called "challenging" due to the show's budget.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

Yet the flashback sequences to Vito Corleone’s arrival in America give it resonance for a country built on immigration, and the film is now almost universally considered the best of the three.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026

Pollock, who has spent hundreds of hours diving in submersibles, counts some of the more spectacular "flashback bioluminescence" events as among the most memorable moments in his career.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

She recognizes the unmistakable signs of a flashback: a woman at a window, a woman with a past, with memory and desire and wreckage in her heart.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez