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
  • That makes the week before Christmas the perfect time to zoom out and take stock of the wider race.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 21 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Typically, when zooming out of the map in a Metroidvania game, the map looks like a maze.
    George Yang, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • The short film ends by zooming out of Morales’ home before a clip of another Bad Bunny track plays.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 3 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Now zoom out until the grid lines disappear and the system becomes a smooth sheet — a quantum field.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 16 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • That’s true but zooming out shows us a much different picture.
    Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • But Sapolsky also zooms out to cover the roles of culture and evolution.
    Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 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
  • The shot then zooms out, showing the producer on the other side of the camera conducting the conversation.
    Sam Reed, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2024
  • At the time, Freddie was zooming out into a different universe.
    Vulture, 17 July 2023
  • Much of the nation stayed hunkered down on Tuesday as the final edges of a major winter storm zoomed out to sea after cutting a 1,100-mile west-to-east swath from the central Plains to the Mid-Atlantic.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • In moments where an error or deadline feels overwhelming, zooming out to view the larger context can help.
    Hanna Hart, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024

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