How to Use freeze-frame in a Sentence

freeze-frame

noun
  • This is a very dense and layered film that fans are going to freeze-frame.
    — Gary Graff, Billboard, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The list is long; this is a very dense and layered film that fans are going to freeze-frame and see stuff and spot stuff.
    — Gary Graff, Billboard, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The benefit was that with four-head models, the slow-motion and freeze-frame features were much clearer and sharper.
    — Brian Santo, IEEE Spectrum, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Bertie Gregory freeze-framed the moment fledgling emperor penguin chicks walk along the edge of an ice shelf.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Each of the photos highly commended in the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition could be a freeze-frame from some mini drama.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Also in 1985, VCR remote controls became available, and manufacturers introduced freeze-frame and search features.
    — Brian Santo, IEEE Spectrum, 7 Nov. 2019
  • That’s Miller disposing of a body in the kinetic opening before hitting the streets, blasting the head off one bad dude, getting thrown from the hood of another guy’s muscle car — in slow-mo, Ponciroli’s favorite device — and shooting at the driver as a freeze-frame leaves him hanging.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019

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