Sentence examples for we skipped forward from inspiring English sources

After a preamble that resolved the series one cliffhanger in an improbable fashion (Grace and Campbell both survived their train platform shoot-out. So much for those IRA guns) we skipped forward two years.

We skip forward to Christmas 1991.

Next, we skip forward to 2004, where we find Holly's partner, a foreign correspondent, ignoring the needs of his family while he fixates on the horrors he's just witnessed in Iraq.

But inside the local library in this town deep in the Rwandan hinterland, we skip forward a few centuries: e-readers, Wi-Fi, smartphones and digital books galore, everything from Dickens to Dante and Dostoevsky.

Here I skipped forward to 1997, Curtis Hanson's LA Confidential.

Instead, he was dispossessed and when the ball came to Alberto he skipped forward and let fly a 25-yard shot that pinged in off David de Gea's left-hand post.

I told him that we in the crowd had all groaned as he clipped his third shot low, only for the groans to become cheers as the ball skipped forward between the bunkers, almost as if tugged by a piece of string, coming to rest inside four feet and leaving a holeable putt that was duly, boldly, holed.

When DC Comics continuity skipped forward one year after the events of the limited series Infinite Crisis, Cassandra Cain is revived as leader of the League of Assassins, having abandoned her previous characterization as an altruist.

The next ten minutes or so is just POV footage of this guy walking through corn saying things like, "Hello?!" and, "What's going on here?!" I got bored so I skipped forward ten minutes.

Political allegiance is a surprisingly common reason for time zone changes; after Russia's occupation of Crimea in 2014, the peninsula's time zone skipped forward an hour, ditching daylight savings time to better match its new owner.

We can skip forward or backward, change articles, and generally exert much more influence over exactly what we are, and are not, absorbing into our consciousness.