zoned out

past tense of zone out

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for zoned out
Verb
  • Instead, Payton Pritchard took the ball himself, driving into traffic as time wound down in the Celtics’ season opener.
    Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
  • After the shoot had wrapped up for the day, the actor wound down with the cast and crew before heading to bed.
    Makena Gera, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The previous week, Emily was at a sleepover at Heather’s house with Gretchen, when Gretchen, loosened up by shots of Fireball whiskey, revealed that Tamra once recorded a song, badly, according to Gretchen, with an unnamed boy band star that Gretchen claims Tamra got frisky with.
    Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 27 Sep. 2025
  • But after a few uses and washes, it’s loosened up and now feels perfect for the combination of my head and hair size.
    Ayana Underwood, Outside, 20 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And someone who is a great listener, respectful, caring, chilled out, someone who supports my dreams – and is cool with my chaos.
    Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Across the field, Granite Hills’ talented junior quarterback, Zac Benitez, chilled out, bobbing his head to tunes playing on his headphones.
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • We were parked alongside a remote and heavily vegetated waterway called Furlong Creek, which was the site of another one of Johnson’s experiments.
    Katie Thornton, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Contrary to the arid badlands of Ledi-Geraru today, millions of years ago, the area was a lush, vegetated landscape with rivers and shallow lakes.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • And in Michigan, Cliffs owns and operates the Tilden Mine near Ishpeming and the adjacent Empire Mine, which has been idled since 2016.
    Jimmy Lovrien, Twin Cities, 20 Oct. 2025
  • In practice, though, the production rate fell well below the ceiling last year as the company contended with investigations and a machinists’ strike that idled factories for almost eight weeks.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
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“Zoned out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zoned%20out. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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