slo-mo
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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“I’ll be running a route, and Dev’s over there with his phone recording me. Then we’ll look at it in slo-mo and break it down.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2025
“It was incredible. I felt like it was slo-mo when it was in the air - just the placement of it, the height of it, the spiral,” Andrews said.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
"Soon," National Geographic tweeted in 2019 with a slo-mo video of an owl headed toward the camera with reaching talons and narrowed eyes.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2023
It’s a slo-mo car crash, where one earthquake is triggering the next and the next and the next.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 6, 2023
Cramp stood up behind his desk in total slo-mo, with his eyes locked on my feet like he’d never seen a pair of bloody socks before.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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