Sentence examples for zipped from inspiring English sources

We zipped along the highway that runs like a backbone from the airport to our destination, the Paradise Cove hotel in the north-east - a journey of about an hour.

We are making a pretentious art film from the 80s' It turns out they first flew to Paris, where Hannibal zipped around on a motorcycle and sautéed the organs of a Dr Fell, an ancient Italian scholar.

The first set zipped by but Errani stayed with her in the second, thanks to her willingness to scurry and retrieve everything within her reach.

The passes zipped around with first-time conviction instead of the multi-touch ponderousness of many recent games.

Truncheons bounced off limbs and bullets zipped into puddles like lumps of sugar into coffee cups.

MACHINEGUN bullets zipped over the concrete walls of the Supreme Court building in Kinshasa on November 21st, as an angry crowd of flip-flop-shod streetboys and plainclothes soldiers bellowed for justice.

It is true that the Tory leader zipped around messily from subject to subject, and contradicted himself in parts (is Britain gripped by "can't do sogginess" or the fighting spirit he extolled in his peroration?).

And as the value of their homes falls further, frightened Spanish consumers are keeping purses zipped tight.

Vanishing energy, for example, could be a particle sneaking off into another dimension, or merely one that has zipped away in boring, normal spacetime without leaving a trace, because the machine is not equipped to notice it.

Anything moving in it is photographed, with images zipped to Mr Hess's mobile telephone, which can close the trap with a keystroke.

This, as any physicist will tell you, is the same as saying they zipped around at the speed of light; a massive particle, by contrast, is by definition more sluggish.