How to Use slo-mo in a Sentence

slo-mo

adjective

• Kids can even get creative with the camera thanks to fun features like slo-mo videos, Portrait Mode, and more.
  — Phoebe Sklansky, Parents, 18 Aug. 2023
• Recently Stephan was in trouble for reenacting a slo-mo fight scene from The Matrix—in the middle of science class.
  — Oliver Broudy, Men's Health, 17 Aug. 2023
• Some of the first Cassandras to draw the public’s attention to this slo-mo self-sabotage were the striking writers.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 30 July 2023
• Since breakouts are usually slightly raised and semi-slick, most concealers tend to slide on down like a slo-mo avalanche.
  — Maura Lynch, Allure, 21 Sep. 2023
• The show features a player tunnel, fog machine, a water bowl and slo-mo cam, and other activities.
  — Pamela Brown, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2024
• Why did the battle scene at the encampment swerve into sloppy slo-mo choreography?
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
• The bear will sneak up behind its victims, race silently, leap in slo-mo, luxuriate under a dust cloud of coke, behead enemies, climb trees and walk on its hind legs, snarling.
  — Mark Kennedy, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2023
• Do aliens really have to look this stupid? Action scenes are serviceable enough but rarely exciting, pumped up with Snyder’s usual tool kit of speed-ramping and slo-mo.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2023
• Some slo-mo angles showed otherwise, especially as the D-man pinged off another Dallas player like a rag dol.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 10 May 2024
• This is a case of too much style and too little substance, as melodrama and excessive slo-mo overshadow the few explosive scenes, including a decent motorcycle chase.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
• Over the course of the film, all the slo-mo and visceral violence — used not to define action but to highlight individual movement, preventing the scenes from having any spatial context — becomes grating.
  — Lucas Trevor, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
• This is presented ostentatiously — Scorsese-style, through a slow-motion tableau (although no movie over three-hours long should ever use slo-mo), with interspersed clips from a silent-movie documentary.
  — Armond White, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
• The sensation of a nation crumbling from within — not in slo-mo deterioration, but amid the chaos of widespread violence and political upheaval — is unimaginable to most people.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 May 2023
• But still and video image quality is remarkable for something this inexpensive: 4K video at up to 50fps, slo-mo, RAW mode, and effective digital image stabilization.
  — John Bradley, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2023
• Today, the axis of resistance puts out daily videos of battlefield operations, complete with slo-mo effects to highlight direct hits on Israeli soldiers and military installations.
  — Narges Bajoghli, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2024
• Additional, slo-mo doc footage of depressed, quotidian Romania extends the movie to nearly three hours, which itself becomes a commentary on media excess and the crisis of impatient social-media narratives.
  — Armond White, National Review, 22 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024