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UK
/flˈæʃbæk/
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[ US /ˈfɫæʃˌbæk/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫæʃˌbæk/ ]
NOUN
- a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
- an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)
How To Use flashback In A Sentence
- Flashback sequences, talking dogs and stuttering pictures add to the general air of unease which the film carries.
- Schumacher opens the film in terrific style with a black and white section set in 1919 Paris, which gradually melts into a full colour flashback to the bustling 1870s.
- He has flashbacks to a tiled white room. Times, Sunday Times
- There is even a flashback to the murder itself.
- The story is told in flashback to how she was captured trying to escape from the city. The Sun
- They even visit Canterbury on their way, but the tales they tell (mostly to us, not each other) are the bitter-sweet flashbacks of memory, not episodes of instructive fiction.
- We don't see any flashbacks to the gory details, but the script makes it plain that this is a man with a murky past, who has indeed used his position to exploit his female students.
- In flashback, we learn how this man lost the will to live, a story that naturally involves a femme fatale. Times, Sunday Times
- The movie consisted of a series of flashbacks.
- Many of Jay Ward's characters and catchphrases have since morphed into pop-culture shorthand: Dudley Do-Right, the clueless Mountie, is shorthand for anybody who stumbles into a situation overconfident he's doing the right thing; Snidely Whiplash, Do-Right's nemesis, for a scenery-chewing villain; the "Waybac" Machine, Mr. Peabody's time-travel system, for a nostalgia flashback; as well as expressions such as "nothing up my sleeve ... presto!" and JSOnline.com
