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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But on Friday, Paltrow insisted that Sanderson ran into her in a slow-motion collision that knocked them both to the ground.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2023
• For Evelyn, looking back on her interactions with Bruce is like watching a slow-motion car crash.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• Other times the impact of climate change, on river erosion for example, is a painful, slow-motion process for those on the literal edge, like Jahidul.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Nov. 2023
• The cameras also have zoom and super slow-motion capabilities that could show how close a kick made it inside the uprights or straight down the middle.
  — Joe Reedy, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2024
• The extension was never completed, but the weight and movement of the dirt shifted the balance of the earth enough to reactivate the slide, sending the land into a slow-motion descent toward the sea.
  — Jack Flemmingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
• Every episode of House Hunters is a slow-motion, just barely subtextual fight between the couple at its center.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2023
• In the play’s most horrifying scene, Maler eschews a graphic approach and leaves the worst to our imaginations by staging it as a kind of slow-motion ballet.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023

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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
• 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 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
• 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
• The scene plays back to me in extremely sultry slow motion.
  — Carole Radziwill, Town & Country, 22 Dec. 2020
• The strong dollar has become a crisis in slow motion for Asia.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• In slow motion, Ross appeared to grasp the ball before Okudah jarred it away from him.
  — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2019
• Portrait mode, to blur the background, time-lapse, slow motion and stellar video.
  — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2020
• Stepping jacks: This is a jumping jack in slow motion — without the jump.
  — Tara Parker-Pope New York Times, Star Tribune, 29 Jan. 2021
• Watching Ye is like watching a car crash in slow motion.
  — Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024