How to Use flash-forward in a Sentence

flash-forward

noun
  • In the flash-forward, Marah gets married to her girlfriend, a doctor, with Tully by her side on the big day.
    Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The flash-forward montage near the end of the finale finishes with Ted waking up from a nap on his flight.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023
  • In the third episode, we’re treated to graduation ceremonies and a flash-forward to a couple of months on the job.
    Sam Russek, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The series used multiple timelines, showing stories that take place in the present as well as flashbacks to the siblings’ childhood and flash-forwards to later years.
    Kelly Martinez, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023
  • The series used multiple timelines, showing stories that took place in the present as well as flashbacks to the siblings’ childhood and flash-forwards to later years.
    Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The series used multiple timelines, showing stories that took place in the present as well as flashbacks to the siblings’ childhood and flash-forwards to later years.
    Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 15 Apr. 2024
  • In one prophetic flash-forward, Paul stands face-to-face with his sister (played by an uncredited Anya Taylor-Joy), though the events of the film take place entirely before her birth.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Where the flashback is actually a flash-forward [for Shauna’s daughter, played by Sarah Desjardins].
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Viewers get a taste of how many outfits Midge has worn throughout the series in the second episode of the final season, when a flash-forward shows Midge on 60 Minutes, auctioning off the pieces for charity.
    Emma Fraser, ELLE, 27 May 2023
  • And while Heather is evidently putting last season's drama behind her, the episode featured a dramatic flash-forward scene to the cast's trip to Bermuda, which will air later this season.
    Maggie Kreienberg, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
  • In the flash-forward, it's insinuated that they eventually get married as Tully is shown wearing a wedding ring.
    Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The wedding scenes are juxtaposed with flash-forwards to the present day, where adult Pete spends the afternoon with Uncle Tommy, and slowly realizes there's a desperately sad man underneath all that tough-guy bluster.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 3 May 2023
  • Reflecting that the end is nigh, several of the episodes incorporate flash-forwards, providing a tantalizing taste of the future Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) and how her showbiz career (and by extension, life) has gone.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The musical ends with a flash-forward to a holiday dinner, and a pregnancy, and a newborn, in a triumphalist sequence that suggests the anti-mask, anti-vaccine movement has liberated society at last.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2024
  • In contrast, modern television shows offer multiple storylines and characters, along with flashbacks, flash-forwards and dream sequences.
    Anna Mattson, Scientific American, 10 Jan. 2024

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