flashback
Example Sentences
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Khaleela said she had flashbacks to the night of Aman's death and suffers from panic attacks as a result of what has happened.
From BBC
As the film gets rolling, via flashbacks, it rolls right off the tracks.
This will be a tale of crime and punishment told in flashback, rewinding to Becket’s mother, an heiress excised from an eleven-figure fortune for giving birth as an unwed teenager.
From Los Angeles Times
He said the concussion triggered his language difficulties and caused him to endure flashbacks, anxiety, and brain fog after the incident.
From BBC
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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
