How to Use flash-forward in a Sentence

flash-forward

noun

• Part of the show’s magic is its setting: the late aughts, with flash-forwards to 2015.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
• In the flash-forward scenes, according to the timeline, those would’ve been late 2020.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 20 June 2024
• 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
• So, what to make of the flash-forwards (approximately six months into the future) at the very end of Season 3?
  — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 22 May 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
• Then a flash-forward reveals that Pen and Colin have welcomed a baby boy, the heir to the Featherington family, and Colin has published his first book, with the help of his wife and best friend.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 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
• With all its resolutions, new beginnings, and flash-forwards, the Six Feet Under finale really seemed to neatly wrap up the lives of the Fisher clan.
  — Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 3 May 2024
• 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
• So flash-forward a couple years, and there weren’t enough employees using the office space, according to Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the matter.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2024
• 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
• From this narrative baseline, the backstory tumbles out in all directions, sustaining a dizzying rally of flashbacks and flash-forwards across a decade-plus narrative span.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Every character is their own mystery box, pried open gradually through flashbacks (and flash-forwards, and another, polarizing, form of departure from the island that came to be known as flash-sideways).
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 3 July 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024