Term Gallery logo

Meanings of zip by in English

Move by very quickly.

Usage of zip by in English
1
Twisting the strap of her purse, she watched the trees zip by.
My deadly valentine
2
Then shots from the other direction zip by -very close.
Wired
3
And then your life won't zip by you so quickly.
The Irish Times
4
And on we went through to service, three and a half hours that zip by.
The reach of a chef: beyond the kitchen
5
And they're all sitting there, just like you, watching the traffic in the other lane zip by.
Economics Without Illusions
6
Not by any means templates for a new movement, the songs at least zip by with no small panache.
The Irish Times
7
Victor sat by the window watching everything zip by, still amazed at the size and immensity of the city.
Earth Afire
8
Take the next off ramp. I gazed out the window, watching the terrain zip by as we began to head inland.
The incumbent
9
The 10-hour trip seemed to zip by; I watched one Nollywood movie, dozed for a few hours and woke up in Ghana's capital city.
Ebony
10
But the animated GIF lets us stop and ponder a single moment in the stream, to resee something that otherwise would zip by unnoticed.
Wired
11
You put yourself three or four thousand kills ventrally to his course, cut your drive, and let the targets zip by right over his head.
For Honor We Stand
12
Another love game zips by in the blink of an eye.
The Guardian
13
A northbound patrol car zips by in a flash of white.
In the night room: a novel
14
She stared out the window at the houses zipping by.
Millionaire's women
15
Sure enough, trees and cars and whole neighborhoods were now zipping by in a gray blur.
The Sea of Monsters
16
Meanwhile, though, news is zipping by -so here's a quick list of recent things worth reading.
Wired
This collocation consists of: