How to Use slow-motion in a Sentence

slow-motion

1 of 2 adjective
  • That wasn’t grit—it as a slow-motion train wreck.
    — Jason Walker Psyd, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • There will be slow-motion footage of red-and-white scarves, twirling and writhing.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Many have been watching this slow-motion train wreck for years.
    — Dewardric L. McNeal, CNBC, 29 June 2025
  • The running game moves in slow-motion.
    — Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Our phones have the slow-motion part down, but the movement can be tricky.
    — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Some of the slow-motion shots of the race are about as good as cycling has ever looked.
    — Jessica Hopkins, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The Gilded Age doesn’t do slow-motion shots.
    — Zoe Papelis, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Ah, there are the slow-motion skateboarders!
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
  • And there’s a slow-motion crisis brewing in rural health care.
    — Stat Staff, STAT, 28 Dec. 2023
  • No slow-motion montage of me staring at bills piling up on the kitchen table.
    — Joe Altieri, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The kind of margin that exists mostly in slow-motion replays of sprints.
    — Kevin Sintumuang, Outside, 11 Mar. 2026
  • And a slow-motion housing crash remains a drag on the economy.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The slow-motion effects and close-ups in this new era are undefeated!
    — Erica Thompson, The Enquirer, 2 Mar. 2023
  • On Thursday, that slow-motion retreat snapped.
    — Denitsa Tsekova, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Shields shared a slow-motion video of herself shaking out her trademark luscious locks.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 30 May 2023
  • 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
  • Musk’s Twitter has tried to mitigate the slow-motion car crash.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Game 1 slipped through their fingers in gutting, slow-motion fashion.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 22 May 2025
  • Her signature spin move and sleight-of-hand dribbling are slow-motion mood boosters.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Death and harrowing scenes of misery festoon these slow-motion tragedies.
    — Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • His setup also has slow-motion cameras.
    — Kansas City Star, 14 May 2026
  • The weight of the sediment had the effect of a slow-motion pressure cooker.
    — Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • One video was a loop showing the moment of impact in slow-motion, stopping before blood is seen.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
  • And that recovery is already a long process for a species with a slow-motion breeding cycle like whales.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Dec. 2024
  • 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 music video glorifies the firebrand with dry ice, slow-motion shots, and red lighting.
    — Heather Hunter, Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 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 Austin Powers, one of my favorite jokes is the slow-motion steamroller chase.
    — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The episode is another nail in the coffin of a slow-motion rap battle, the likes of which the hip-hop world has not seen in decades.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 14 June 2025
  • 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

slow motion

2 of 2 noun
  • The scene was shot in slow motion.
  • They showed the goal in slow motion.
  • Kind of felt like slow motion, got his head up and put it on my tape.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The video then replays her fall in slow motion.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The ball flew about 37 feet through the air in slow motion.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The next 18 months will feel like a stress test in slow motion.
    — Amy Eliza Wong, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Still, to sit in the courtroom that day was to watch death in slow motion.
    — Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The video was filmed in slow motion by The Post.
    — Joy Sung, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • The driver, who had a faraway look in his eyes, moved in slow motion.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 19 May 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 owner then put the clip in slow motion to show how the dog twisted and turned.
    — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The doctors, in slow motion, take off their masks and smile at the camera.
    — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Floods and fires and huge, pristine blocks of ice falling in slow motion to their deaths.
    — Clare Sestanovich, New Yorker, 13 July 2025
  • Stop being a little cat (in slow motion).
    — Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 9 June 2026
  • Stop being a female dog (in slow motion).
    — Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 9 June 2026
  • Miguel catch the ball and throw to me and everything is going in slow motion.
    — Freep.com, 31 May 2020
  • The previous version his friends saw was a slow motion train wreck.
    — David Sturm, Howard County Times, 24 May 2018
  • The end of that Warriors tilt was like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2026
  • When a wave passes, the kelp moves together in one big sigh, a slow motion cheer.
    — Outside Online, 26 June 2024
  • Portrait mode, to blur the background, time-lapse, slow motion and stellar video.
    — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Here's what our favorite lifeguards have been up to since running (in slow motion) down that beach.
    — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Another shows a white owl landing on her arm in graceful slow motion.
    — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Watching someone die from cancer is like watching a car crash in slow motion.
    — Eli Raphael, PEOPLE, 10 May 2026
  • The strong dollar has become a crisis in slow motion for Asia.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • In the scene, the Griffith Park Carousel spins in slow motion.
    — Michael Lee Simpson, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The sweeping views of the caldera are like watching a moving postcard in slow motion.
    — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The perception of time changes to where everything seems to move in slow motion.
    — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Davis looked at the barrel of the pistol and saw smoke curling upward, as if in slow motion.
    — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Spin moves in the post happen in slow motion, finishing with his feet affixed to the ground.
    — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2022

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