zing

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

The real zing comes from her addition of toasted and crushed Sichuan peppercorns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 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

She didn’t speak directly to Jesse, but she gave him a look with those blue eyes of hers that made him zing like one of the strings she was strumming.

From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson

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

Anarchic energy zings out in moments of overemphasis — when the music swells too loudly, when the dialogue comments too closely on the themes.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2021

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

The truth of that sentence zings through me, zillions of times stronger than any shin pain.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

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

West has zinged from begging for reconciliation on social media to parading around with a look-alike of his estranged wife.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2022

Now on the mound, the lefty zinged it.

From Fox News ● Sep. 20, 2021

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

It zinged through the air on its mission like a missile from a fighter jet.

From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea

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

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

In the case of “Marty Supreme,” set in the early 1950s, that means a radical use of electronica: sequenced beats, zinging harps and treated choir voices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025

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 river has slowed somewhat since then, but white-water rafters are still zinging by as if they were propelled by some hidden motor.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

Without even looking, he catches a ball that comes zinging our way and flings it back to home.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven