zing

All around them, the zing is missing, the villains are lackluster, the energy is low.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

You can eat it on its own or as a topping to many of the other dishes if you want to add a little zing.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025

After recovering from a serious hip injury, Breach has rediscovered her pinball zing.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025

But it’s the gleam in his eyes, the gusto in his delivery, that makes every line zing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025

Cejas’s story gallops on and on, and I feel her sparkle zing right through the phone and into my hand.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

It’s a salad that can sit in the fridge for days without losing its snap, yet it’s never inert: a forkful zings, a little sweet, a little tart, a little green, a little peppery.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025

The amorphousness of the series — which zings between parodic edge and epiphanies — might be a function of its peculiar DNA.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2023

Yet as he lay horizontally watching the show in his red bunk bed, those same yips and mews and zings never got old.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2021

Packed with crunchy, sharp zings of onion, pickle and savory capers, this sauce delivers boldness.

From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2021

Momly threw one of her zings that sound too sweet to be a zing, which makes it zingier.

From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds

As Stinson’s anxiety appeared to be spiraling, Trevino — looking at his cap — zinged him: “Dodgers, are you kidding me?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2023

John Updike zinged him on several occasions and gave an unpleasant lawyer the name Gilman in his novel “S.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023

In 2019, Lukas zinged trainer Mark Casse by saying they combined with Bob Baffert for 29 Triple Crown victories: 14 for Lukas and 15 for Baffert.

From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2022

In a scrimmage at the stadium, Lawrence rolled out to his right, stood up statue-straight and zinged a laser to the fingertips of a receiver 40 yards upfield.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2021

The hornets zinged about waiting for snouts to break the surface.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Still, theater critics zinging Zacharia’s lack of polish are missing the point.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

"This is one of those few shows that I'm involved in where I can go 'you need to come. It's really good', because the zinging one-liners are all his."

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

From the control room next door, the animals show up as dots on the computer monitors, looking like remote-control Ping-Pong balls zinging around the room and occasionally coming to rest in odd corners.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2023

The Hebrew-school comedy “Tahara” mimics the zinging pleasure of overhearing teenagers chatter as they walk home from school: It’s gossipy, delicious and a tad cruel.

From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2022

Yes, it was true that panic was shooting up and down my spine and zinging out to my fingertips.

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson