How to Use flash-forward in a Sentence

flash-forward

noun
  • And didn’t last season close with a flash-forward to a future without him?
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025
  • That [flash-forward] gives the idea of an entirely new life that a lot of these people have.
    — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Wednesday’s episode opens with (of course) a flash-forward, this time of Joan sniffling back tears on a ship.
    — Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The issues the pair had were too big to get addressed further or resolved in the flash-forwards in the series finale.
    — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • 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 flash-forward scenes, according to the timeline, those would’ve been late 2020.
    — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 20 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • This interaction will be paid off at film’s end, when the action flash-forwards to 2025.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 18 May 2025
  • Also, the end-credits scene where a modern-day Carol meets the Avengers is one heck of a flash-forward tease.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026
  • There will then be flash-forwards to 2026 to undisclosed events that the team is saving for a later reveal.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 23 July 2026
  • Early on, the action is set in historical perspective by means of flash-forwards.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2024
  • There’s flashbacks to things that happened five minutes earlier and flash-forwards to how a stunt could look instead of just getting on with it.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
  • 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
  • Zion is an excellent, empathetic anchor for viewers when shots fire in the season's opening flash-forward.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • These three youths share goofy, creepy smiles among themselves, made meaningful when the directors cross-cut flash-forwards of domestic life, game life, gang life, and lonely life.
    — Armond White, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025
  • 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 season began, as all seasons of the HBO series do, with a flash-forward to a death that will hang over the entire season.
    — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025
  • That scene is directly followed by flash-forwards to tourists in the present day admiring a riverbank spot where the adult Kafka would always rest after a swim.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The series opened with a flash-forward to gunshots at the resort, and a glimpse of a body in the water, and the series has so far made continual references to tsunamis and death by drowning.
    — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Nothing makes this part of the chase memorable or important enough to merit a flash-forward, which turns it into a deflating blunder in a series that can’t afford to slow down.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 15 July 2026
  • Somewhere between the two timelines that the show introduced was a wilderness flash-forward of a girl in a white dress running for her life, barefoot through snow, who is then impaled and eaten by her friends.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Lohan took to Instagram to share a preview clip from the new episode, which will involve a flash-forward where the Simpsons children have gotten older.
    — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 14 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Where the flashback is actually a flash-forward [for Shauna’s daughter, played by Sarah Desjardins].
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The episode ended with a flash-forward of Conrad and Belly a few years in the future returning to the summer house together for the first time as a couple.
    — Stephanie Wenger, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • That cliffhanger leads into what will be a tragic finale, opening up with the ‘90s power couple finding themselves in a rocky place, as was teased in the flash-forward first moments of the premiere.
    — Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026
  • 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

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