flashback to

Frequency: 7.010.5 per million words

Used to specify the event or time period that the flashback is about.

flashbackPREPOSITION

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Examples (10)

  • I had a sudden flashback to my childhood home.
  • The movie uses a flashback to show how they first met.
  • She experienced a vivid flashback to her wedding day.
  • The documentary includes a flashback to the 1960s protest movement.
  • He had an unexpected flashback to his time in the military.
  • The novel opens with a flashback to the protagonist's youth.
  • Seeing the old photograph triggered a flashback to that summer vacation.
  • The TV series uses frequent flashbacks to the character's troubled past.
  • I had a painful flashback to the accident scene.
  • The therapy session brought up a flashback to her college years.