How to Use slow-motion in a Sentence

slow-motion

1 of 2 adjective
  • There will be slow-motion footage of red-and-white scarves, twirling and writhing.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The mother of five kept the bit going, posting the video again but in slow-motion and zoomed in closer.
    Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The final track was performed at 1.5x speed by Loretta and filmed in slow-motion to give the scene a dreamy feeling.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 June 2023
  • Musk’s Twitter has tried to mitigate the slow-motion car crash.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • And a slow-motion housing crash remains a drag on the economy.
    Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • In a devastating slow-motion shot, Rhaenys and Meleys fall from the sky.
    Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 7 July 2024
  • And there’s a slow-motion crisis brewing in rural health care.
    Stat Staff, STAT, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The slow-motion effects and close-ups in this new era are undefeated!
    Erica Thompson, The Enquirer, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The music video glorifies the firebrand with dry ice, slow-motion shots, and red lighting.
    Heather Hunter, Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2023
  • O’Hara’s insecure histrionics play like a slow-motion car wreck in the movie, giving it one of its brighter spots.
    Dan Heching, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Later in the film, a different character jumps from a space dock in epic slow-motion to land on a flying craft.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Cue the slow-motion music and work your way up to check out the intricate architecture along with the bright stained glass windows.
    Isis Briones, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
  • These are apt dividing lines for a Republican Party in the throes of a slow-motion schism.
    Grace Segers, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The film consists of 8 hours and 5 minutes of slow-motion black-and-white footage of an unchanging view of the building, a tactic meant to allow the viewer to watch time go by.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 June 2024
  • Shields shared a slow-motion video of herself shaking out her trademark luscious locks.
    Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 30 May 2023
  • The broadcasts will include 18 cameras, a Steadicam, four slow-motion cameras, a Skycam and a drone camera.
    Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
  • In a viral slow-motion video, Isaac can be seen looking at Chastain and kissing her inner arm.
    Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Sea level rise, driven by climate change, is a slow-motion problem that's easy to ignore.
    David Schechter, Haley Rush, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The final scene ends on a surreal note, with Cary, sporting a suit, falling backwards in slow-motion into a pool while Dyan stands by the edge of the pool looking on.
    Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Death and harrowing scenes of misery festoon these slow-motion tragedies.
    Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The episode that resulted used all the lurid tropes of true crime movies: close-ups of my mug shots; shadowy, slow-motion reenactments of the shooting; scary background music.
    John J. Lennon, The New York Review of Books, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Cymbals like eerie warning bells, a kick that resonated like a slow-motion earthquake.
    Jonathan Rowe and Chris Schwartz, SPIN, 2 Nov. 2023
  • In the slow-motion shots, where the men appear as little more than silhouettes against a backdrop of smoldering brush, the fronds hit the flames, shooting sparks and embers into the air.
    David Alexander, The New Yorker, 28 June 2023
  • There was a slow-motion video camera—similar to the ones used at the Oscars—for posing and a strolling band who, after the cocktail hour, led everyone to the tent for dinner.
    Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Morocco is positioned at the juncture of a slow-motion tectonic crash between the African and Eurasian plates.
    Constant Méheut, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The drone also has hyperlapse, slow-motion, and waypoint flight features for a variety of shots.
    Shubham Yewale, PCMAG, 20 June 2024
  • Among the more serious of these risks is the slow-motion train wreck that is occurring in the commercial-real-estate sector.
    Desmond Lachman, National Review, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Biden’s slow-motion meltdown has left Democrats worried about their odds this fall of keeping control of the Senate and claiming a majority in the House.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 12 July 2024
  • Doubling the frame rate allows for up to 4x slow-motion effects when capturing at the camera’s highest resolution.
    Paul Monckton, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
  • The slow-motion rupture threatens an economic bond that dates back more than four decades, when Japan started to extend trillions of yen in development assistance to China by way of low-interest loans.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2024
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slow motion

2 of 2 noun
  • The scene was shot in slow motion.
  • They showed the goal in slow motion.
  • In the scene, the Griffith Park Carousel spins in slow motion.
    Michael Lee Simpson, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2022
  • With the muzzle on him, all seemed to be in slow motion.
    Russell Worth Parker, Outdoor Life, 11 May 2023
  • The first two innings seemed to be played in slow motion.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2022
  • The doctors, in slow motion, take off their masks and smile at the camera.
    Vivian Wang, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2020
  • The play seemed to be moving in slow motion, and the ball was straight out of a scene of Harry Potter.
    Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 4 May 2020
  • The driver, who had a faraway look in his eyes, moved in slow motion.
    John Benson, cleveland, 19 May 2021
  • Miguel catch the ball and throw to me and everything is going in slow motion.
    Freep.com, 31 May 2020
  • The new drone captures 4K video and slow motion high-def video – and goes from 0 to 62 mph in two seconds.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The process, as the video shows above, looks a lot like a landing on U.S. carrier in slow motion.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2018
  • In the lab, the researchers used slow motion video to tease out the ants’ choreography.
    Cara Giaimo, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2020
  • The dominoes fell, but in slow motion, one every few years.
    Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
  • The slower motion of the ions destabilizes the whole plasma.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2018
  • For 38 pitches and 26 minutes, the Red Sox watched a horror show in slow motion.
    Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2019
  • The glass lands, in slow motion, on the floor and shatters into 10 million pieces over the living room rug.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Must your killing be in slow motion and caught on not one video but multiples?
    Charles M. Blow New York Times, Star Tribune, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Watch partner lift hand to scratch nose as if watching a car wreck in slow motion.
    Claire Friedman, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The world may be falling apart in slow motion, but hey, at least the trains in Germany are running on time?
    Aarian Marshall, Wired, 19 Apr. 2020
  • Slo-Mo: No prizes for guessing that this is the slow motion mode, which captures video at a high frame rate.
    David Nield, Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The sweeping views of the caldera are like watching a moving postcard in slow motion.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Lightning actually stops at the top of the pier, drags her front legs over the edge in painful slow motion.
    T Kira Madden, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The Suns play these videos of the players walking in slow motion through an open area towards the locker room.
    Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 9 Apr. 2023
  • The roll out of Bitcoin in El Salvador so far is playing out like a car crash in slow motion.
    Daniel Alvarenga, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2022
  • When a wave passes, the kelp moves together in one big sigh, a slow motion cheer.
    Outside Online, 26 June 2024
  • The film plays and replays in slow motion the footage of Robinson sliding into home plate.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2023
  • Spin moves in the post happen in slow motion, finishing with his feet affixed to the ground.
    Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2022
  • That’s because the slow motion is in our memories, not in the moment.
    Popular Science, 20 June 2020
  • Haunting, strange, heroic, scary, sad, slow motion yet high-octane.
    Amanda Peukert, SPIN, 8 Aug. 2024
  • These waves propagate outward in extremely slow motion, at rates of 15 to 20 kilometers per million years.
    Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Aug. 2024

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