Example Sentences

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As if a formidable pale index finger with a square-trimmed nail rewinds the hands.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

There’s a confusing beat when, without warning, the film switches cities and rewinds a day.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2025

The film rewinds to December 1970 and the cusp of Christmas break for Barton, an Ivy League feeder school for boys in suburban Massachusetts.

From Salon • Feb. 16, 2024

Unfortunately, the staging, with interstitial rewinds as seen in “Hamilton,” is so unclear you may have trouble following any of the outcomes, which all involve one of the regulars at Trish’s.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2023

Turn the pages of that diary, and her inky scrawl rewinds the clock, to a time when her story is just starting.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield