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
• Charleson’s professional life was shaped by a kind of slow-motion joke.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026
• 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
• To the viewer, the documentary plays out like a slow-motion car crash.
  — David MacK, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
• On Thursday, that slow-motion retreat snapped.
  — Denitsa Tsekova, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2025
• Seconds later, that same man is engaged in a slow-motion martial-arts fight scene.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2026
• 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

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
• Looking back now on our ordeal, the thing seems like a nightmare in slow motion.
  — James D. Oxley, Outdoor Life, 5 Aug. 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