zone out

Example Sentences

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Once his online classes are over, Luis zones out playing a first-person shooter game called "Half Life," often for five hours a day.

From Barron's

I can peacefully zone out, knowing these people are qualified.

From The Wall Street Journal

Kellerman spends the last five minutes of the class talking with us about our upcoming art project, and I’m relieved to just zone out and listen.

From Literature

Could he zone out and listen to the entire Dylan catalog?

From The Wall Street Journal

“When I’m playing, it zones out,” Anna Leigh Waters says of that unmistakable, plastic pop, pop, pop distinct to the wildly popular paddle sport—and a bane to fussy condo boards everywhere.

From The Wall Street Journal