Example Sentences

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He has designs on a third film to complete the trilogy, but A24 hasn’t yet dated “Pearl,” which will rewind in time to explore the young Pearl’s backstory circa 1918.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2022

Eventually and fragmentarily, the story will rewind to explain how Monte and Willow came to be where they are — and where everyone else went.

From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2019

“We are relieved to learn that Cyntoia Brown’s sentence has been commuted — but we also know that nothing will rewind her years of incarceration,” the National Women’s Law Center wrote on Twitter.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2019

She is particularly obsessed with the end of close games, when she will rewind plays three or four times to make sure she has properly digested them.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2018

“In one second they took our whole chance away of winning anything, and definitely it rewinds in my head. Definitely it will rewind in my head constantly throughout this week.”

From Washington Times • Nov. 24, 2014