How to Use time-lapse in a Sentence

time-lapse

adjective
  • Smith had an old cell phone set up to take a time-lapse video of the eclipse.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 8 Apr. 2024
  • But viewed in time-lapse there is a larger pattern in the lights, their tracery.
    — Ben Lerner, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Each portrait is shared as a time-lapse video with a voiceover telling that person’s story.
    — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The time-lapse video shows teams reconstructing the dinosaur in just over a minute.
    — Staff Reports, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The thin air carried a chill as clouds swirled around us — and, dizzyingly, below us — at time-lapse speeds.
    — David Amsden, Travel + Leisure, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The time-lapse graphic shows what the eclipse will look like from Indianapolis.
    — Chris Sims, The Courier-Journal, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Here are some time-lapse videos from the AlertWildfire cameras.
    — Kate Galbraith, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Nov. 2025
  • There's also a time-lapse feature, subject tracking and cruise control.
    — James Abbott, Space.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Its smooth movement is especially helpful for time-lapse videos.
    — Chris Stokel-Walker, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The glowing cloud rose almost gracefully, like a time-lapse film of a flower blooming.
    — Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Video The group also made time-lapse photos of stalks bearing fruit for several days.
    — Carolyn Wilke, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • And then, there were instances where the time-lapse happened, or the filming happened before the song happened.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
  • Wang first constructed his first time-lapse footage of the Beta Pictoris b with five years of its circuit.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The opening credits roll over the transformation of an empty apartment in a cool time-lapse sequence.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Daddario shared photos of her haircut, plus a time-lapse video of her hairstylist creating the look from start to finish.
    — Catharine Malzahn, Glamour, 16 July 2025
  • The time-lapse transition of a landscape from before dawn to midday shifts smoothly from dark to bright without any odd flaring.
    — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
  • An all-sky camera from the University of Alaska captured a time-lapse of the event.
    — Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Olbinski specializes in time-lapse footage as storms develop.
    — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • In the first post, Dreyer shared a time-lapse video of her and her kids stringing white Christmas lights around the evergreen.
    — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Both can add bokeh (background blur) to a portrait and provide features such as slow-motion, panorama, low-light, and time-lapse shooting.
    — PC Magazine, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Kim's time-lapse ends as the station passes back into the day-side of our planet, with its solar panels basking in direct sunlight.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 12 June 2025
  • The professors showed a series of time-lapse satellite images of a receding and flooded shoreline.
    — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The officers shined their flashlight on my pistol, drew their guns, barked me out of my ride and in the slowest of time-lapse, found a baggie laden with dope under my seat.
    — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Nature landscapes have vivid and well-balanced colors, and that mode preserves highlights and shadow details very well across time-lapse sequences.
    — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 16 June 2026
  • Nature landscapes have vivid and well-balanced colors, and that mode preserves highlights and shadow details very well across time-lapse sequences.
    — PCMAG, 17 Dec. 2024
  • But the high-speed footage acted like a time-lapse movie of the destruction, allowing the team to map every oscillation in real time.
    — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Here's a look at how the suburbs have changed through the lens of Google Earth's time-lapse function dating back to 1984.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Even the establishing shots start to evoke those time-lapse interstitials on reality shows.
    — Anna Gaca, Pitchfork, 30 Jan. 2026
  • But flanked by a dozen or so time-lapse cloud sequences, Maras and his cast strain toward a kind of biblical grandeur their painfully effortful film can’t reach.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 May 2026
  • Much of what family and mom influencers put out—weekly grocery hauls, time-lapse kitchen-cleaning videos, bedtime routines—is mundane.
    — Kristen Martin, The Atlantic, 13 May 2026

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