How to Use zoom out in a Sentence

zoom out

verb
  • The heaters zoomed out of his hand.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Longer-term take When in doubt — zoom out.
    — Jay Woods, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Or, lets zoom out to the network view.
    — Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2025
  • From there, the graphic novel zooms out and back in time.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
  • But zoom out, and coherence emerged.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Jones also zoomed out for a minute to talk about the race for the fourth quarter.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
  • When zoomed out, the song lengths do, in fact, make a diamond in the center.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The video zoomed out to reveal that Swift was right by her side, recording the clip.
    — Starr Bowenbank, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Sagittarius teaches us how to zoom out.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 28 Nov. 2025
  • These questions help leaders zoom out and see beyond one moment in time.
    — Dr. Monika Sumra, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Don’t zoom out three minutes after the final whistle.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 18 June 2026
  • Andrew answers as the camera zooms out on the two of them lying on the ground among flower beds.
    — James Factora, Them., 24 Sep. 2025
  • Fascia work teaches us to zoom out and address the whole system, not just the symptom.
    — Jennifer Shanker, Flow Space, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Before booking, zoom out on the map and look at what’s within walking distance.
    — Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Our goal here is to zoom out and get a real sense of how long these painful pullbacks need to be tolerated.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 1 June 2026
  • As the episode ends, the camera zooms out on the house, with an American flag waving in the wind.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 1 June 2026
  • As the camera zooms out, Taylor can be seen sitting down in one of the seats closest to the door.
    — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Now let’s zoom out to the NFL and Bill Belichick.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Do not zoom out to show your disappointed roommate waiting to fill up her water bottle.
    — Emily Menez, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2026
  • To understand why that distinction matters, zoom out.
    — Nicole Fraenkel, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Select moments may land a laugh, but zoom out a little, and the real joke is that this movie was made in 2026.
    — Natalia Winkelman, Variety, 27 May 2026
  • After weeks of emotional depth, the universe is encouraging you to zoom out and dream bigger again.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 18 Jan. 2026
  • While the stock market zooms out to a 12-month horizon, the consumer is stuck in the lived reality of the status quo.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • But even in navigating those heavy personal feelings, Baumann couldn’t help but zoom out.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The camera then zooms out to show that the athlete is actually inside of a snow globe, which the pop star has been gazing into and shaking.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2025
  • To zoom out a bit, the S & P 500 went six months without so much as a 3% pullback and has now had three of them in the past five weeks.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Answering why the organization has been so bullish on the decision requires zooming out.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Apple claims a 2x optical zoom in and 2x optical zoom out, but the 17 does not have a telephoto camera.
    — Iyaz Akhtar, PC Magazine, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The whole thing ended with him getting copied into two other versions of reality, as what seemed to be one kind of story zoomed out to reveal another.
    — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The idea of food apartheid forces us to zoom out and consider how many systems are deliberately built to work against certain consumers based on race and geography.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026

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