flashback

Example Sentences

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Or was it a flashback to his old self?

From BBC

"I feel bad seeing those images. It gives me flashbacks. That could have been me," she says.

From BBC

We learn all of this via flashbacks interspersed throughout the present-day trials of Dr. Grace after he wakes up, clueless, on a spaceship extremely far from home.

From The Wall Street Journal

The script’s two mysteries — why is Tau Ceti safe and why is Grace not — intertwine in flashbacks that are interesting enough for a while.

From Los Angeles Times

From what we see of Scotty in flashbacks, he was a buoyant blond goofball — exactly the kind of guy that the apparently friendless and family-less Kenna would have clung to like a life preserver.

From Los Angeles Times