How to use "flashback" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "flashback" in popular movie and book plots

  • The story is presented as a flashback of Max Eriksson, a Vietnam veteran.  - Casualties of War
  • In a flashback to 1928, Billie is working as a housekeeper in a brothel in Baltimore where she is raped.  - Lady Sings the Blues (film)
  • The flashback sequence starts on Scabb Island and constitutes most of the playable game's setting.  - Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
  • When he visits the pub where Rosy is serving alone, he collapses under a flashback to the trenches and is comforted by her.  - Ryan's Daughter
  • Seita's spirit then begins to narrate their story accompanied by an extended flashback of the final months of World War II.  - Grave of the Fireflies
  • Susie has a flashback to her own life.  - Mrs. Parkington
  • Reiko also has a sudden flashback of a young Sadako psychically killing a reporter who labelled her mother a fraud during a demonstration.  - Ring (film)
  • However, his grandfather recounts via flashback a cautionary tale of a great love affair with a "fallen women" during his own youth.  - Romance (1930 film)
  • We flashback to years earlier, with Robert sitting in the backyard.  - Proof (play)
  • Most of the novel is then told in flashback as Casaubon waits in the museum.  - Foucault's Pendulum
  • The story is told in a flashback by an American called David Ellington.  - The Howling Man
  • A flashback shows Banzai's mentor, dr Hikita (Robert Ito), was present at Lizardo's failed overthruster experiment in 1938.  - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
  • All three marriages are shown in flashback to be strained.  - A Letter to Three Wives
  • From here, the story is told in flashback using the memories of the men on the float.  - In Which We Serve
  • He goes to Alma, who tells him about Sylvia's past: these flashback scenes are portrayed in the film.  - Within Our Gates
  • A flashback reveals that Judy was the person Scottie knew as "Madeleine Elster"; she was impersonating Gavin's wife as part of a murder plot.  - Vertigo (film)

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