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How to use flashbacks in a sentence

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

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They even visit Canterbury on their way, but the tales they tell are the bitter-sweet flashbacks of memory, not episodes of instructive fiction.
He has a splitting headache and is suffering flashbacks filled with scenes that suggest a danger-filled past.
Set within the time frame of the afternoon drive, the film engages in a steady stream of flashbacks.
The voice-over narration and flashbacks provide an autobiographical as well as retrospective cast to the film.
Time is treated kaleidoscopically, whether in selective moments, flashbacks or offstage voices from the past.
This is powerfully demonstrated in the film by atmospheric flashbacks to the last supper.
Leaving aside potential issues with subject matter, it's a bit of a one-trick horse, isn't it, with the flashbacks and all?
This is the story of their reunion, interspersed with romantically filmed speechless flashbacks.
His flights of fancy occur primarily as dream sequences and flashbacks, leaving room for the plot to linearly unfold.
His use of split screen and fade through flashbacks is so imaginative that there are moments when the film is artistically stimulating.
More of an acquired taste are her occasional forays on the Wurlitzer organ, which may induce flashbacks of Rolf Harris.
Ashley Judd, the youthful Vivi, whoops it up with the sisters in one of the predictable flashbacks from Divine Secrets.
No doubt there will be more flashbacks to come but so far the ones that have surfaced have made me smile.
Gregory and nearly everything in his horror show look like flashbacks to early '90s video game graphics.
I have no recollection of my past memories, except periodic flashbacks of my previous life.
On the whole, though, the flashbacks are clumsily integrated into the main action, and can't be salvaged by the staging.
Here, honor, freedom, love, betrayal and friendship are intermingled during a World War II drama through a series of flashbacks.
It is never a good sign when a film is told in flashbacks and the same actors are playing the same roles, back and forth.
The story is intercut with flashbacks to earlier summers, when the sun shone and everything in the garden was lovely.
In a series of flashbacks, the film dramatizes the unfortunate consequences of this belief system.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The story of 20-something year old Dorte is told, rather disjointedly, as a stream of consciousness and flashbacks.
The story of 20-something Dorte is told, rather disjointedly, as a stream of consciousness and flashbacks.
So does his faultfinding and rather weary flashbacks to his past as an ambitious young man who, yawn, pulled his socks up and got on with it.
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