slow motion
Example Sentences
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One of their leaders told me: "It's been a slow motion car crash – we need a concrete promise that things will change."
From BBC • May 9, 2026
With piles of snow at every intersection and pedestrians moving in slow motion, I regularly bolted ahead and mounted obstacles like a fullback rushing for glory, leaving Sarah somewhere behind.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
This features a life-sized giraffe and a replica of an equestrian statue of Otto von Bismarck, the first chancellor of the German Empire, both constantly change shape in slow motion.
From Barron's • Oct. 22, 2025
Makai Lemon came screaming across the center of the field, gliding past one Michigan State defender, then another, moving as if the world around him were in slow motion.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2025
Taking a claw clip out, I shake my hair side to side in slow motion as if auditioning for a Pantene commercial.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
