How to Use time-lapse in a Sentence

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• Smith had an old cell phone set up to take a time-lapse video of the eclipse.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 8 Apr. 2024
• But viewed in time-lapse there is a larger pattern in the lights, their tracery.
  — Ben Lerner, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• Each portrait is shared as a time-lapse video with a voiceover telling that person’s story.
  — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
• The time-lapse video shows teams reconstructing the dinosaur in just over a minute.
  — Staff Reports, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
• The effect was less like watching a time-lapse than hurtling across a social-media feed.
  — Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2026
• The thin air carried a chill as clouds swirled around us — and, dizzyingly, below us — at time-lapse speeds.
  — David Amsden, Travel + Leisure, 19 Aug. 2023
• The time-lapse graphic shows what the eclipse will look like from Indianapolis.
  — Chris Sims, The Courier-Journal, 8 Apr. 2024
• Here are some time-lapse videos from the AlertWildfire cameras.
  — Kate Galbraith, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Nov. 2025
• There's also a time-lapse feature, subject tracking and cruise control.
  — James Abbott, Space.com, 23 Feb. 2026
• Its smooth movement is especially helpful for time-lapse videos.
  — Chris Stokel-Walker, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
• The glowing cloud rose almost gracefully, like a time-lapse film of a flower blooming.
  — Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
• Video The group also made time-lapse photos of stalks bearing fruit for several days.
  — Carolyn Wilke, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
• And then, there were instances where the time-lapse happened, or the filming happened before the song happened.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
• Wang first constructed his first time-lapse footage of the Beta Pictoris b with five years of its circuit.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 Aug. 2023
• The opening credits roll over the transformation of an empty apartment in a cool time-lapse sequence.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2023
• Daddario shared photos of her haircut, plus a time-lapse video of her hairstylist creating the look from start to finish.
  — Catharine Malzahn, Glamour, 16 July 2025
• The time-lapse transition of a landscape from before dawn to midday shifts smoothly from dark to bright without any odd flaring.
  — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
• An all-sky camera from the University of Alaska captured a time-lapse of the event.
  — Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2023
• Olbinski specializes in time-lapse footage as storms develop.
  — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• In the first post, Dreyer shared a time-lapse video of her and her kids stringing white Christmas lights around the evergreen.
  — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 2025
• Both can add bokeh (background blur) to a portrait and provide features such as slow-motion, panorama, low-light, and time-lapse shooting.
  — Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 13 May 2026
• Kim's time-lapse ends as the station passes back into the day-side of our planet, with its solar panels basking in direct sunlight.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 12 June 2025
• The professors showed a series of time-lapse satellite images of a receding and flooded shoreline.
  — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2024
• The officers shined their flashlight on my pistol, drew their guns, barked me out of my ride and in the slowest of time-lapse, found a baggie laden with dope under my seat.
  — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• Nature landscapes have vivid and well-balanced colors, and that mode preserves highlights and shadow details very well across time-lapse sequences.
  — PCMAG, 17 Dec. 2024
• But the high-speed footage acted like a time-lapse movie of the destruction, allowing the team to map every oscillation in real time.
  — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2026
• Here's a look at how the suburbs have changed through the lens of Google Earth's time-lapse function dating back to 1984.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 2023
• Even the establishing shots start to evoke those time-lapse interstitials on reality shows.
  — Anna Gaca, Pitchfork, 30 Jan. 2026
• But flanked by a dozen or so time-lapse cloud sequences, Maras and his cast strain toward a kind of biblical grandeur their painfully effortful film can’t reach.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 May 2026
• Much of what family and mom influencers put out—weekly grocery hauls, time-lapse kitchen-cleaning videos, bedtime routines—is mundane.
  — Kristen Martin, The Atlantic, 13 May 2026