Example Sentences

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“I was zapping around TV on a Sunday and somehow got stuck on the channel showing the game,” Spiess said.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2022

Sharp, articulate, educated, nobody’s fool—and there she was, zapping herself with a machine invented by someone who died of what it supposedly prevented.

From Slate • Jan. 23, 2017

There he was zapping Julie Andrews on a mountaintop in “The Sound of Music.”

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2011