zinging

present participle of zing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for zinging
Verb
  • Brown has a history of citations and arrests in North Carolina dating back to 2011, according to court records, from minor infractions like speeding to more serious crimes such as communicating threats, breaking and entering, assault, and felony larceny.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The film, which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival, opens with a truck speeding off after having deposited the body of a teenage girl dressed in a school uniform on an isolated desert peak.
    Beandrea July, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Just across from the main entrance to App State, the small parking lot has cars darting in and out all day.
    Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
  • As the temperature surged to two hundred degrees, Solórzano slammed a snowball scented with black pepper and juniper tar onto the rocks, filling the room with a gunpowdery musk, and waved furiously, darting up and down the sauna stairs, tossing his towel in an elegant plume of white.
    Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Old Dominion started fast, with quarterback Colton Joseph faking out the Hoosiers defense on the first offensive play of the game and sprinting 75 yards for a touchdown.
    Michael Marot, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
  • As Kudus flicked the ball onto Richarlison, breaking City’s offside trap, Johnson made an instant reaction, sprinting well ahead of Rico Lewis, who started 10 yards ahead of the forward and failed to sense the danger.
    Elias Burke, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The sterile cockpit rule prohibits pilots from engaging in conversations unrelated to operating the aircraft when flying below 10,000 feet.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Perhaps the easiest was an airplane flying overhead.
    Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Soderstrom followed with a drive to left, where Ward moved in and to his left before realizing the ball was sailing over his right shoulder.
    Mike Digiovanna, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Royal Caribbean International Royal Caribbean also encourages guests to dress up during voyages sailing over Halloween.
    Nathan Diller, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • While you guys had staff inside laughing, pointing and even flicking off the crowd outside.
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The BirdWeather devices automatically register bird calls and use them to identify the species, mostly to let bird fans know what's flitting through their yards.
    Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Stop flitting around and stop straddling strategies by making the plan that becomes your default.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • During their first night out together, the couple ducks into a Spanish nightclub, drinking under a smear of colored lights and then dancing.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • As a guy who is simply not built for summer (sweaty, burns easily, refuses to wear shorts), the turning of the calendar to September adds a little lead to my tread, with visions of cider and sweaters dancing in my head.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Zinging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zinging. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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