Example Sentences: Words Starting with Z
22 words starting with Z, each with example sentences that show how it is used.
- zapYou might feel a little zap touching a metal doorknob when the air is dry.
- zealShe extols the virtues of veganism with missionary zeal.
- zealotThe zealots glowed with religious fervor.
- zebraZebra mussels are causing significant problems as an invasive species in North America.
- zenithWinning the continental championship was the zenith of my career.
- zephyrIn 1953 the Russian Republic Ministry of the Food Products Industry increased confectionery output 10% above...
- zeroThe conductor waited until the passenger count was zero.
- zestThe orange zest gives the strong flavor in this dish.
- zigzagI walked down the zigzagging path.
- zincI spun a brody in some chat up at the old zinc mine.
- zineZines contributed to an evolving critical language that would ultimately take two paths: into the gut or to...
- zingHe listened to the zing and echo on the line, the chatter of distant operators, the patches of Morse from...
- zipI know zip about economics.
- zipperHe got his T-shirt stuck in the zipper of his jacket.
- zitherWe wandered and fiddled and zithered and tambourined through France till the chills and rains of autumn...
- zodiacThe duodecennial Chinese zodiac originated from Chinese and Indian observations of the duodecennial cycle of...
- zodiacalFor several evenings the pale twinkling of the somber zodiacal stars lighted up the west side of the heavens...
- zombieAfter working for 18 hours on the computer, I was a zombie.
- zoneThere is a no-smoking zone that extends 25 feet outside of each entrance.
- zooThe London Zoo was built in 1828.
- zoomWhat's the zoom like on your camera?
- zucchiniZucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit.
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Example sentences adapted from Wiktionary, from the entry of each word and the entries the sentences come from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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