I heard a zing close to my head and looked up again. Five or six men were lined up on the deck above me with rifles shooting at the shark.
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Zing
//zɪŋ//
Synonyms for "zing" (85 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (26)
Related words (42)
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Translations
15 translations across 6 languages.
Czech
3 entries- elán noun (zest or vitality)
- nadšení noun (zest or vitality)
- verva noun (zest or vitality)
Dutch
1 entries- pit noun (zest or vitality)
Finnish
3 entries- suhahdus noun (a short high-pitched humming sound)
- surahdus noun (a short high-pitched humming sound)
- säpinä noun (zest or vitality)
French
2 entries- sève noun (zest or vitality)
- vitalité noun (zest or vitality)
Polish
3 entries- energia noun (zest or vitality)
- wigor noun (zest or vitality)
- świst noun (a short high-pitched humming sound)
Spanish
3 entries- brío noun (zest or vitality)
- silbido noun (a short high-pitched humming sound)
- zumbido noun (a short high-pitched humming sound)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
To accompany a meal, the fresh Italian lager Poretti is perfect; Erdinger Weisbier, a wheat beer from Germany, is full of zing;
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We are all a second or two older than an astronaut who has been zinging around the Earth at 18000 miles per hour, because of his or her greater speed and the lack of gravity.
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When the caller identified herself as from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle my heart zinged. I heard the words we had yearned for since March: They had found a donor marrow, mismatched at one antigen, that might work for Jane.
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