How to Use zoom out in a Sentence
zoom out
phrasal verb-
Click the plus to zoom in, and the minus button to zoom out.
— Scooty Nickerson, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024 -
Click the plus to zoom in, and the minus button to zoom out.
— Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2024 -
At the end of the video, drone footage zooms out to show trains waiting to take the group away.
— Ian Urbina, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023 -
By the time the satellite zooms out of sight, another should be in view.
— Matt Day, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023 -
The camera then zooms out through the restaurant and over the Chicago skyline.
— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 May 2024 -
Then zoom out to view all vertices that are just one edge away on the original graph.
— Quanta Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023 -
Step back, zoom out, stop clinging to your measly private past.
— Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023 -
Calm for me is about being able to shift my perspective and zoom out.
— Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 22 Apr. 2023 -
But when one zooms out, l’affaire Gay is an interesting glimpse of what the future might look like for all of us.
— Christian Schneider, National Review, 4 Jan. 2024 -
In order to achieve this, our graduate programs zoom out and in.
— Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2023 -
The scene starts with a close up of Rexha’s face and zooms out to show her daring dress — a structured black gown with a plunging neckline.
— Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2024 -
The video then zoomed out through graphics of the earth, including waterfalls, mountains and a beach.
— Jenny Haward, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2023 -
Shiv, in the end, has the perspective to zoom out and state plainly what’s always been obvious from the outside.
— Alison Herman, Variety, 28 May 2023 -
There’s also a great sense of scale, and the camera will zoom out to show you just how tiny Samus is compared to a huge machine or monster.
— Brandon Widder, The Verge, 14 June 2023 -
To get around this problem, Olah’s team of Anthropic researchers zoomed out.
— Billy Perrigo/san Francisco, TIME, 21 May 2024 -
Her only quibble — without zooming out, the frame is too small.
— Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023 -
The chef is staring straight ahead when the shot zeros in on his eyes, flips outward, and quickly zooms out — zipping from the back of his head, through the restaurant, and over the city of Chicago.
— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2024 -
Playfully zoom out a bit — who put them in charge of everyone else, anyway?
— Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2024 -
But having to zoom out and look at justice and morality in a different lens, rather than the classic rulebook.
— K.j. Yossman, Variety, 19 July 2024 -
At the time, Freddie was zooming out into a different universe.
— Vulture, 17 July 2023 -
In her memoir’s recollections, Britney doesn’t have a manifesto, a thesis that zooms out from this is what happened at the time.
— Raven Smith, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2023 -
During some races, the cameras can capture the competitors behind her only by zooming out.
— Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 28 July 2024 -
The 46-year-old MC posted a video soon after in which he was seen being loaded into the back of an ambulance on a stretcher, with a zoom out to show a black Tesla with a totaled front end.
— Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 12 Dec. 2023 -
Dodin and Eugenie’s soul connection is so particular and so obsessive that the film can afford to zero in on it rather than zoom out.
— Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 May 2023 -
Unfortunately, the action stalls out somewhat after that as the story back-tracks and zooms out to contextualize the tableau.
— Jessica Liese, Variety, 14 Feb. 2024 -
The 9 Pro Fold supports hybrid zoom out to 20x, and these images are impressive but begin to show pixelation and smearing, especially in low light.
— PCMAG, 3 Sep. 2024 -
This zooming out can continue until all the details of the hologram disappear altogether, which in the model of the universe suggested by Hawking and Hertog, would be the origin of time at the Big Bang.
— Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023 -
Lucid seems to have intentionally framed the images to obscure interior details, including the second image of the rear, which is zoomed out.
— Umar Shakir, The Verge, 25 Apr. 2023 -
At this time, remember to zoom out and focus on the benefits that interoperable data will unlock.
— Joe Gagnon, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024 -
Instead, the film periodically zooms out to introduce some levity through his sister and brother-in-law (respectively played by Jenny Slate and Hasan Minhaj, who both seem out of place in the soapy mess).
— Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2024
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