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How to use flashback in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word flashback? Here are some examples.

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The story is narrated in flashback by Louis, in a letter written from his prison cell.
A flashback is a sudden, vivid memory of a bad trip and can be very frightening, sometimes causing mental health problems.
It is based on a true story, framed by an investigative journalist's interview with his elusive subject and told mostly in flashback.
In prison, she tells her story, and the rest of the film proceeds in flashback.
Most of the flashback sequences are monochromatically colour-coded to the tiniest detail.
Dimly he felt a flashback being playing like an old '40s news picture in the dark, cobwebbed corners of his mind.
The central event, told in flashback, is very powerfully and beautifully expressed.
Using this flashback format, both lead characters are separately questioned in the present by an off-screen interviewer.
It's all told in flashback, as MacMurray gasps his story into a dictograph for Robinson to hear the following morning.
The film works in flashback, filling in the details of the trial and the events leading up to the verdicts.
The notorious acid flashback happens when the body uses some of these fat reserves, thus releasing L.S.D. into the bloodstream.
The film is told entirely in flashback, from the perspectives of our three heroes.
He also uses the clumsy narrative device of the flashback in attempt to generate a sense of depth in the relationship.
The film opens with a flashback to explain how long term fixture and resident clown Eddie came to work at the famous clip joint.
With the whole movie being a flashback, to have a flashback within a flashback seems a little overdone.
The story is told in flashback as Will and his pregnant French wife Josephine recall the stories his father had told him all his life.
Induce a flashback to your younger years, and start a snowball fight, go sledding, and make a snowman, or a snow angel.
That mulchy smell could trigger an olfactory flashback of Proustian ripeness in children of a certain age.
In one long flashback we are shown the rocky road of Seth and Chelsea's relationship leading up to the present moment.
The tale is told in flashback for no apparent reason other than to vary the storytelling approach.
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He woke to find Billy gone, and had a momentary panic, a flashback to the day that Fred had gone missing in the night.
After a wonderfully surreal flashback to Arthur's misspent and misremembered youth, Michael books Arthur a flying lesson as a special treat.
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