How to Use slo-mo in a Sentence

slo-mo

adjective

• The new iPad Air cameras support 4K video and 240-fps slo-mo.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 7 May 2024
• Her arms windmill like the hummingbirds’ wings shot in slo-mo.
  — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
• Kids can even get creative with the camera thanks to fun features like slo-mo videos, Portrait Mode, and more.
  — Phoebe Sklansky, Parents, 18 Aug. 2023
• Who came up with the idea for the slo-mo gag of Martin accidentally tasting the black jellybean?
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 21 June 2024
• Some slo-mo dancing paired with royalty-free-sounding EDM does not make the crew look cool or convince me this is a fun time.
  — Emma Soren, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2024
• Twenty or so episodes later, the truth was revealed, in a slo-mo season finale reveal.
  — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2024
• Recently Stephan was in trouble for reenacting a slo-mo fight scene from The Matrix—in the middle of science class.
  — Oliver Broudy, Men's Health, 17 Aug. 2023
• Then the slo-mo singers return, and not even the usually propulsive conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin can give this clunker some zip.
  — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
• Some of the first Cassandras to draw the public’s attention to this slo-mo self-sabotage were the striking writers.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 30 July 2023
• The swirling camera work during some of the acceptance speeches felt like the red carpet slo-mo booth had broken out of its enclosure.
  — Stephanie Goodman, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
• Since breakouts are usually slightly raised and semi-slick, most concealers tend to slide on down like a slo-mo avalanche.
  — Maura Lynch, Allure, 21 Sep. 2023
• The show features a player tunnel, fog machine, a water bowl and slo-mo cam, and other activities.
  — Pamela Brown, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2024
• Why did the battle scene at the encampment swerve into sloppy slo-mo choreography?
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
• The bear will sneak up behind its victims, race silently, leap in slo-mo, luxuriate under a dust cloud of coke, behead enemies, climb trees and walk on its hind legs, snarling.
  — Mark Kennedy, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2023
• Do aliens really have to look this stupid? Action scenes are serviceable enough but rarely exciting, pumped up with Snyder’s usual tool kit of speed-ramping and slo-mo.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2023
• Marvel dropped a full trailer in April that was chock-full of off-color witticisms, meta-references, slo-mo action, and a generous sprinkling of F-bombs.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 July 2024
• The behind-the-scenes clip concludes with the Grammy-winning rapper filming a slo-mo punching scene with his blond Slim Shady persona before the camera cuts to the latter noting that his shoe came off between takes.
  — Njera Perkins, Peoplemag, 11 June 2024
• Some slo-mo angles showed otherwise, especially as the D-man pinged off another Dallas player like a rag dol.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 10 May 2024
• Well, Jennifer Lopez just perfected that very seductive slo-mo energy and vibe in her most recent video—but instead of getting out of a pool, Lopez was getting ready to wear a revenge dress on the red carpet.
  — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 9 Sep. 2024
• The accompanying visual was shot in slo-mo by Phil Meyer to symbolize the deliberate shift.
  — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 9 Aug. 2024
• This is a red flag for producers, who stare at the details of each reveal with the analytical intensity of commentators reviewing slo-mo sports footage.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 4 June 2024
• Nor does Coppola do her lead or the film any favors by continually cutting away to slo-mo scenes of Anderson twirling around outside and staring forlornly at the horizon, which gives off heavy student-film vibes.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2025
• This is a case of too much style and too little substance, as melodrama and excessive slo-mo overshadow the few explosive scenes, including a decent motorcycle chase.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
• Over the course of the film, all the slo-mo and visceral violence — used not to define action but to highlight individual movement, preventing the scenes from having any spatial context — becomes grating.
  — Lucas Trevor, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
• This is presented ostentatiously — Scorsese-style, through a slow-motion tableau (although no movie over three-hours long should ever use slo-mo), with interspersed clips from a silent-movie documentary.
  — Armond White, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
• Even the romanticism works effectively, cross-pollinating Jay’s heroic slo-mo walk towards Ally with the chaos unfolding all around him.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
• There’s even a moment where Flic struts down a hallway in slo-mo that seems like a direct homage to Max’s famous stride.
  — Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2026
• The episode begins with some slo-mo B-roll footage.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
• Kenan Thompson's character screamed in slo-mo horror.
  — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Nov. 2025
• Smith was particularly incensed about that slo-mo first half his team played.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 29 Oct. 2025