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How to use zip in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, interjection, verb

Zip means the high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air. Example: “I know zip about economics.”

Examples of zip by meaning

nounZero; nothing.

  • I know zip about economics.

verbTo close as if with a zip fastener.

  • Zip your lip!

verbTo move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound.

  • The bullet zipped through the air.

verbTo move in haste (in a specified direction or to a specified place).

  • Zip down to the shops for some milk.
  • She zipped into the office to pour a bowl of diet treats for Quincy.2014, Janet Cantrell, chapter 7, in Fat Cat at Large, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 58
  • Despite writing that can be confusing — we are not told, for example, how Oishi’s group of 56 ronin ended up just 47, or maybe a supertitle zipped by too quickly — the story moves at a steady clip.2022 October 24, Elisabeth Vincentelli, “‘Chushingura — 47 Ronin’ Review: A Sprawling Tale of Loyalty”, in The New York Times, archived...

verbTo make (something) move quickly.

  • Tottenham also initially struggled to create genuine goal-scoring opportunities, with Bale, Luka Modric and Rafael van der Vaart zipping passes around to little effect.2011 December 27, Mike Henson, “Norwich 0 - 2 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 28 Oct 2019

More sentences with zip

  • This machine cancels the letters that have a valid zip code.From the entry cancel
  • Why don’t you just zip your lip? I’m tired of listening to you.From the entry zip one's lip
  • He added just a skosh of vinegar, to give the recipe some zip.From the entry skosh
  • Always check if you've zipped up your fly before you go out.From the entry zip up
  • This mansion must have its own zip code!From the entry have one's own zip code
  • Wallace and Brewer are almost certain to finish 1-2 in some order – no one else is even in the same zip code.From the entry zip code
  • The boiler suit was the kind with stud-fasteners rather than a zip.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 19. From the entry boiler suit
  • Pogba zipped a pass to Cavani and his lay-off went to the ever-lurking Fernandes.2021 April 29, Jamie Jackson, “Edinson Cavani and Bruno Fernandes help Manchester United hit Roma for six”, in The Guardian. From the entry lay-off
  • Jonathan told her how they had been acrobranching on zip wires and climbing nets in the trees.2017, Robert Bluck, Mr Woodreeve's Reflection. From the entry acrobranching
  • The instruction which we are going to intrinsify is the CRC32 calculation, which is implemented by java.util.zip.CRC32.2015, Alex Kasko, Stanislav Kobylyanskiy, Alexey Mironchenko, OpenJDK Cookbook, Packt, →ISBN, page 139. From the entry intrinsify
  • It looked like a real gun, but who knew, maybe it was zip gun.2012, Arnold Silveri, Turning the Corner on Life, page 59. From the entry zip gun
  • However, pipes can't be used to read SAS data sets from a zip file in this way.2006, Phil Mason, SAS tips and techniques from around the globe, page 269. From the entry zip file
  • Just type in your zip code to search by carrier, phone, or plan.2005 July, Dan Tynan, “30 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do on the Internet”, in PC World, volume 23, number 7, page 79. From the entry tied in knots
  • To e-mail a zip file, you need to attach the zip file to an e-mail message.2004, Alan Simpson, Alan Simpson's Windows XP Bible, page 505. From the entry zip file
  • For example, the foreign zip code H24 JZL is most certainly not a number.1990, Alan Simpson, Paul Lichtman, The First Book of Lotus 1-2-3, H.W. Sams & Company, →ISBN. From the entry zip code
  • So if you live in a zip code that has been overpoliced historically, you are going to have overarresting.2023 July 19, Brianna Scott, Ailsa Chang, Jeanette Woods, “How AI could perpetuate racism, sexism and other biases in society”, in NPR…. From the entry overpolice
  • He had me move 2 zips of K-2, and a little over 3 zips of meth for him.2022 January 29, SHON the Blu’Prince [pseudonym], chapter 19, in Pink Collar Crimes, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN. From the entry cash app
  • He listened to the zip of doctor birds at the window and the peach trees in the wind.2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 125. From the entry doctor bird
  • Crystal might have said that those perfect lips were zipped, but the kidnappers had no way of knowing that.2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN, page 261. From the entry let sleeping dogs lie
  • The resort was known as the destination for adventurecation, which included whitewater rafting, zip lining, rappelling and other activities.2018 July 13, Lisa Hendrix Simmons, chapter 4, in Kip MacAllister Adventures: Back In Action!, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 27. From the entry adventurecation
  • But ABN-AMRO redlined some small areas in largely yellowlined zip code areas, and greenlined some small areas in largely redlined areas.2011, Manuel B. Aalbers, Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets. From the entry greenline
  • But today nothing: nix, zilch, sweet zip dangdoodley zerosville Idaho.2010, Stephen Fry, Paperweight, page 201. From the entry zerosville
  • He has been referred to as the urban zip coon, dancing dandy, and, most notably, Sambo, the happy slave.2006, Ronald L. Jackson II, Scripting the Black Masculine Body: Identity, Discourse, and Racial Politics in Popular Media, page 26. From the entry zip coon
  • He quickly zipped back under the blade of kelp.2004, Louise Gikow, chapter 8, in Shark Tale: The Movie Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Inc., →ISBN. From the entry sharkie
  • Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick) is terminally incapable of zipping it up.1998, Monica Sullivan, VideoHound's Independent Film Guide, page 18. From the entry zip up
  • The simplest zip gun seen by the author was a metal tube in which a .22 Magnum cartridge was inserted.1998, Vincent J.M. DiMaio, Gunshot Wounds, page 282. From the entry zip gun
  • The symbol may be expressed antisocially by carrying a liquor flask, a switch-bladed knife, or a zip gun.1954, Janet Page Murray, Clyde E. Murray, Guide Lines for Group Leaders: The why and how of Group Work. From the entry switch-bladed
  • For all her nihilistic angst, Nora assumes her sitter duties like a real Mary Poppins, making sure Johm's little jacket is zipped to the chin.2024, Baron Ryan, A Comedy of Nobodies: A Collection of Stories, Blackstone Publishing, page 90. From the entry Mary Poppins
  • My mother could zip off for a girls’ weekend that would last a week with Fergie (the former Royal, not the Black Eyed Pea).2021, Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks, Orion Fiction, published 2022, →ISBN. From the entry Black Eyed Pea
  • The zip bomb's output size grows quadratically in the input size; i.e., the compression ratio gets better as the bomb gets bigger.2019 July 2, David Fifield, “A better zip bomb”, in bamsoftware.com, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2025. From the entry quadratically
  • Zipping up my fly, i ran out of the park, ran without stopping, panicked, hysterical, ran for my life back to my dorm room.2013, Martin Duberman, The Martin Duberman Reader, →ISBN. From the entry run for one's life
  • And a typical Georger logs in religiously to enter their dollar serial numbers and zip codes before they stamp and spend them.2013 March 24, Stan Alcorn, “Where's George?: The Trail Of $1 Bills Across The U.S.”, in NPR. From the entry Georger
  • Speedboarding involves leaping onto long skateboards and zipping down steep public streets and canyon roads at speeds of more than 40 mph.2009 February 25, Noam Friedlander, “Dangerous sport of speedboarding banned from Malibu streets”, in The Daily Telegraph. From the entry speedboarding

Meaning of zip

  1. noun The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
  2. noun Energy; vigor; vim.
  3. noun A zip fastener.

Full definition of zip

Questions about zip in a sentence

How do you use zip in a sentence?
Zip is used as a noun, interjection and verb. For example: “I know zip about economics.”
What is a short sentence with zip?
“Zip your lip!”
What does zip mean?
Zip means the high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zip (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes 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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