How to Use time-lapse in a Sentence
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But time-lapse videos of the shrub showed that wasn’t true.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
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The corals appear rather spry in the time-lapse footage.
—Jason Bittel, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
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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
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This capture is a still from a time-lapse of 248 images.
—Samuel Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2024
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But viewed in time-lapse there is a larger pattern in the lights, their tracery.
—Ben Lerner, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
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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
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The time-lapse video shows teams reconstructing the dinosaur in just over a minute.
—Staff Reports, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
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The time-lapse graphic shows what the eclipse will look like from Indianapolis.
—Chris Sims, The Courier-Journal, 8 Apr. 2024
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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
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See a time-lapse of the storm’s path over California below.
—Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
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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
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An all-sky camera from the University of Alaska captured a time-lapse of the event.
—Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2023
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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
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Video The group also made time-lapse photos of stalks bearing fruit for several days.
—Carolyn Wilke, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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McCoy and his colleagues used time-lapse video and a microscope to record the IVF embryos' first cell divisions.
—Gina Jiménez, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
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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
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The appearance of the swirl was caught in time-lapse on the Geophysical Institute’s all-sky camera and shared widely.
—Mark Thiessen, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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The clouds are mostly white, but there is an intriguing tinge of red as well in the time-lapse below, which consists of 16 minutes of observations.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 12 Feb. 2025
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At one point, before the production got approval to use film, Gagné even borrowed a Bolex from a gaffer and bought film herself in order to shoot a time-lapse of the nature around the house.
—Abigail Lee, Variety, 11 June 2025
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Despite the very visible protests on the r/Place canvas, on Thursday, Reddit did actually share a time-lapse video of some of day one.
—Jay Peters, The Verge, 22 July 2023
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On Allie’s side of the equation especially, the time-lapse provides information the movie did not.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
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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
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Firefly released a time-lapse video Monday from one of Blue Ghost's 12 cameras showing the spacecraft's top deck, with the Moon's cratered terrain unrolling beneath it.
—Kristin Shaw, Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2025
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The professors showed a series of time-lapse satellite images of a receding and flooded shoreline.
—Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2024
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The cameras monitored the activity of females and cubs around the den by collecting thousands of time-lapse images for about 1 month.
—Bygennaro Tomma, science.org, 27 Feb. 2025
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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
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Both can add bokeh (background blur) to a portrait and provide features such as slow-motion, panorama, low-light, and time-lapse shooting.
—PC Magazine, 21 Nov. 2025
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