How to Use zoom in a Sentence

zoom

1 of 2 verb

• They got in the car and zoomed away.
• The group of bicycle racers zoomed past.
• Housing sales have zoomed in recent months.
• After her first successful cases she zoomed to the top of her profession.
• Servers with food carts zoom between tables, large and small.
  — Eva Remijan-Toba, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026
• Instead, the ball zoomed between his legs and rolled to the wall, scoring one.
  — Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 26 June 2026
• With drones zooming around her Rhode Island home, a big backyard tent feels, well, kind of silly.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 26 June 2026
• But Lendeborg’s tendency to float stood out in a setting where most players were zooming at maximum speed.
  — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 19 July 2026
• Many devices compress sheet music into widescreen formats, forcing musicians to zoom or adapt their reading habits.
  — William Jones, USA Today, 3 June 2026
• Close encounter An asteroid discovered just a few days ago will zoom past Earth tonight, coming four times closer than the moon.
  — Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
• That’s about it as far as hardware differences, everything else from the display panel to memory to zoom lenses remains the same.
  — Ben Sin, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
• As Psyche zoomed past the red planet, its cameras captured a wide-angle overhead view of Mars’ southern polar ice cap.
  — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 20 May 2026
• Little wonder, then, that in-game spend across the converged TV market is on pace to zoom past the $20 billion mark just one year from now.
  — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 27 May 2026
• The point guard Jose Alvarado, shirtless and crazed by joy, zoomed by, passing 250 Broadway.
  — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 June 2026
• They've also been called superzooms, megazooms, or even ultrazooms, though those definitions got a little muddy as pocket cameras got longer and longer zoom ranges.
  — Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 9 July 2026
• The latter push has resulted in TVS Motor zooming ahead to become the largest producer of electric two-wheelers in its home base.
  — Naazneen Karmali, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
• Some are zooming around on jet skis in a water tank that's impressively built into the pavilion building that's stood in the Giardini since the 1930s.
  — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 8 May 2026
• When converting a photo into a wallpaper, Apple automatically adjusts and zooms the image for an optimal view.
  — Kimberly Gedeon, PC Magazine, 29 May 2026
• Gone are the Labrinth needle-drops and kinetic camerawork — whip-pans and dolly zooms have given way to wide shots on 65mm, as its cast of hot young actors delve deeper into a vast wasteland where hope does not spring eternal.
  — Marlow Stern, Variety, 11 May 2026
• An introductory video includes views of the planet before zooming down to the Space Coast, flying over to downtown Orlando and zipping into the Dome.
  — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 May 2026
• Citing those acquisitions, Cineverse said its revenue zoomed 67% in the quarter compared with the year-ago period, hitting $26 million.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 26 June 2026
• The Central Park Conservancy, which runs the park on behalf of the city, supports a ban, but the Conservancy should be more concerned with swarms of e-bikes and scooters zooming through the park.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 20 July 2026
• The University of Minnesota alumnus zoomed through the neutral zone past opposing defenseman in his 51 NHL games.
  — Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2026
• California’s e-bike laws and restrictions E-bikes have zoomed into popularity across the country, especially among kids and teens, and that surge has been met with a wide array of models with different specifications and abilities.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
• McDonald’s Official Instagram posted a teaser featuring the characters’ shadows zooming through the universe, past stars that form a Happy Meal.
  — Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
• Explore the Outdoors From hitting the water on a paddleboard or kayak to zooming around on WaveRunners, taking boat tours or simply watching for manatees and dolphins, this is a coastal playground with adventure for everyone.
  — South Seas, Miami Herald, 15 May 2026
• This 36-page activity book is filled with puzzles, activities, and games, giving the young explorer in all of us a chance to zoom through the rivers of America collecting stamps, possibly resulting in a Master Ranger sticker prize.
  — Tiffany Chang, Travel + Leisure, 26 June 2026
• But, as fate would have it, the rest of the tech industry quickly zoomed past the original AI chatbot interaction model and have focused all of their efforts on agentic AI—which essentially extends AI capabilities into autonomously doing more sophisticated tasks.
  — Bob O'Donnell, USA Today, 12 June 2026
• Sven Hoppe | Picture Alliance | Getty Images In the booming generative AI market, Anthropic has zoomed ahead of the field, largely thanks to Claude Code, its AI coding assistant.
  — Jennifer Elias,jordan Novet, CNBC, 1 June 2026

zoom

2 of 2 noun

• The truck went by with a zoom.
• The camera was equipped with a zoom.
• The zoom ring is just ahead of focus.
  — Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 13 May 2026
• Why is every fifth shot a crash zoom?
  — Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
• Patience and a good zoom lens are your friends here.
  — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 21 Apr. 2026
• There’s a lot of ways to tell those stories through pans and zooms.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2020
• The zoom lens will set you back by $4,599.
  — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 26 Aug. 2025
• Anybody can put on a brave face for a half-hour zoom meeting.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 25 Aug. 2020
• This is where the new Google Maps zoom trick will come in handy.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 3 Feb. 2022
• In this instance, the lack of a zoom is what did the glasses in.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 23 Apr. 2024
• Zoom in on the map to see if there are any dams near your location.
  — Nathaniel Levine, sacbee, 27 July 2017
• Go ahead and look at that zoom-in on the hairline in the below post.
  — Danielle Gray, Allure, 9 Jan. 2018
• The drone video zooms in on them, and flashes of gunfire light up the screen.
  — Washington Post, 18 May 2018
• The women, many of them just girls, flick prawn shells at the zoom lens of prying tourists.
  — Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 14 Dec. 2024
• TikTok users were pairing the song with the app's slow zoom trend.
  — Daniela Avila, PEOPLE.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• Connect us with authors in person, on zoom, and on the page.
  — Linda-Marie Barrett september 10, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
• The paps were also there, with their zoom lenses primed for the money shots.
  — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
• Unique dual-periscope zoom system.
  — Paul Monckton, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• The zoom ring takes up most of the space here and is easy to find thanks to its ribbed plastic texture.
  — PCMAG, 31 Mar. 2024
• The lens has just two rings—one for manual focus and a second to set the zoom.
  — PCMAG, 2 Dec. 2024
• Apple fans have also wanted 5x zoom across the board.
  — PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
• Apple fans have also wanted 5x zoom across the board.
  — PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
• Apple fans have also wanted 5x zoom across the board.
  — PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2025
• There are a couple of trade-offs versus an optical zoom.
  — PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
• Paparazzi need the most high-powered of zoom lenses to snag even the fuzziest of snaps.
  — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
• The shutter release, on/off switch, and zoom rocker are at the top of the handgrip.
  — PCMAG, 30 July 2024
• The barrel of the lens features a custom focus hold button and a zoom lock switch.
  — Harry Bennett, Space.com, 29 July 2025
• The 3x zoom photos are sharp and detailed, while the 6x shots are decent, too.
  — Prakhar Khanna, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
• The controller also has dials to control the zoom and angle of the lens.
  — Dallas News, 1 Dec. 2022
• There is a contrast button to turn the screen black and white; a zoom button makes the text larger on the screen.
  — Dylan McGuinness, ExpressNews.com, 17 Oct. 2019