How to Use acclimate in a Sentence

acclimate

verb

• We took a few days to get acclimated to our new teacher.
• I acclimated myself to the hot weather.
• You might need to acclimate your plants to bright sunlight gradually.
• This will help the rose bush acclimate to its new home.
  — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 25 Mar. 2021
• Fields could use a season to acclimate to the NFL, and the 49ers have a veteran in place.
  — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2021
• This could be set up days before the event to acclimate your pets.
  — Iris Katz, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 19 Dec. 2020
• My body knows that stress and how to adjust to it, how to acclimate itself to it.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
• Aaron Rodgers acclimates, well enough, to new head coach Matt LaFleur’s scheme.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 23 July 2019
• Davis changed teams and wanted time to acclimate to the Lakers.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2019
• That said, there wasn’t much time to acclimate to the varsity game.
  — Gregg Voss, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• For Klein, it’s taken some time to acclimate to the majors.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2024
• The students were part of a summer camp designed to help acclimate them to high school.
  — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2023
• Most spend the night at one of the nearby trail camps to help get acclimated to the altitude.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2019
• A full month of acclimating should be more than enough.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• The winter months can be hard to get dressed while acclimating to the cold weather.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 6 Dec. 2023
• The group concluded that there might be a benefit to the two days, which would give the prospect time to acclimate.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2021
• Get the new guy acclimated before the playoffs, if that’s still in the works in a couple more months.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2020
• And the seven new coaches seemed to acclimate well, save for a few hiccups here and there.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 7 Aug. 2020
• As the impact of the virus waned, drivers have struggled to acclimate to the return of traffic.
  — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2022
• These guys stay here for around 2 months acclimating from base camp to camp 4.
  — Fox News, 15 June 2019
• Spicy days are here, here’s how to acclimate to heat and get an edge on your competitors.
  — Richard A. Lovett, Outside Online, 25 May 2021
• Malzahn said the Knights will try their best to acclimate to the cooler temperatures in the three days leading up to the bowl.
  — Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Dec. 2022
• Your body will need time to acclimate to this new form of exercise.
  — Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
• In order to acclimate to the changing tides of life, something about you has changed on a deep level.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2021
• The kids have just started to get acclimated to their new school, make friends and live a semblance of a normal life.
  — Farah Yousry, NPR, 6 Sep. 2024
• The rhinos had a few weeks of crate training to acclimate them to their journey on a cargo plane.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2019
• Remember to avoid looking at any bright lights for at least 15 minutes to give your eyes a chance to acclimate to the dark.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2024
• Then Lolita will need to get acclimated and trained to hunt.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
• Willard attributed the slow showing to nerves and trying to acclimate eight new players.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 4 Nov. 2024
• For those acclimated to rugged life in the wilderness, this is likely a non-issue whatsoever.
  — New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Jan 2025