Example sentences for: zipping

How can you use “zipping” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The 1930s' Hollywood censors' ban on showing even a married couple in the same bed or a man putting on his trousers and zipping (or buttoning) his fly seems ludicrously prudish to us today.

  • Starting about five years ago, I started seeing the little white service wagons of the Schindler Elevator Co., a Swiss company, zipping around downtown Ottawa, Toronto, and Montreal.

  • The one zipping around in circles is an Orbital Sander, and the drab little creature making those sad chirps is a Plain Brown Wrapper.”

  • Yet around the station you see tower blocks, neon signs, cars zipping along the highway — all the signs of a normal town.

  • If we had a decent system of public education, filled with healthy children enjoying universal access to medical care, easily reached by high-speed maglev trains driven by bioengineered dogs fed on the limitless bounty we farm on the ocean floor, then we'd all learn that metric system and reward ourselves by zipping off on our unicopters to the space port for our two week vacation on the moon.


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