How to Use slow-motion in a Sentence
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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
- The scene was shot in slow motion.
- They showed the goal in slow motion.
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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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