slow motion
Example Sentences
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We were moving so fast and the deer was moving so fast that within a second or two we were several yards past where it had happened and yet everything seemed suspended in slow motion.
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I knew it was bad as soon as I heard the crack, but the whole tragedy happened in cinematic slow motion.
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It was like I was seeing everything in slow motion.
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Duane twisted his neck around, following Magic’s sudden departure, watching the whole unexpected episode unravel before his eyes in slow motion.
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In ghostly slow motion, I could see her running with mane and tail blowing in the breeze.
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