flashback

Example Sentences

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Something here at the World Cup feels more like a flashback to the times of old.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

As recounted in flashback, Debbie had discovered William, who has Parkinson’s disease, not breathing and unresponsive.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 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

In some future installment, a flashback, I shall perhaps recount that pilgrimage through the swamps, a journey into the desert from which I returned broken physically, mentally, and spiritually.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole