How to Use coexist in a Sentence

coexist

verb
  • The species coexist in the same environment.
  • Can the two countries peacefully coexist?
  • The two events not only can coexist but enhance each other, researchers have found.
    Ana Rivas, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The city has argued that the port and the project could coexist without major disruptions.
    Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The low and high notes always coexist in both sexes and enhance each other, like a diamond and its case.
    Guillaume Jacquemont, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Slow-moving, bulky manatees have long struggled to coexist with humans.
    Curt Anderson, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Modern amenities and vintage touches coexist to bring you the best of both worlds, over a century after the station was first built.
    Shelby Knick, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The two often coexist, since so many brain injuries are sustained in traumatic experiences.
    Jamie Gold, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The neighborhood has managed to grow — and normalize — in large part because of a Roman willingness to rebuild, move on and coexist with even the worst parts of the past.
    Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2021
  • But unlike many other countries, neither Japan nor South Korea imposed a full lockdown and have been trying to coexist with the virus all along.
    BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The question for viewers, and the central challenge of Wall’s work, is whether these postmodern twists can coexist with the social critique, or fatally subvert it.
    Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Thus, the phrase ger v’toshav speaks to the complexities of human nature and the need for the binary feelings of ger and toshav to coexist sometimes in tension, sometimes in harmony.
    Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Oct. 2021
  • In Uganda and Guinea, for example, the apes seem to coexist better with people—in part because local customs forbid hunting them.
    Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The question as to whether Shan and Deshawn can coexist in the same alliance and if the island is big enough for the two of them is probably the biggest plot point worth following in this game.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • And there is room for all scale and scope of films to coexist.
    Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2023
  • El Conde is many things, some of which tend not to coexist in movies.
    Vulture, 21 Sep. 2023
  • But the four of us coexist in this film as proper leads.
    Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • Last season, Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown put to rest any talk that the two couldn’t coexist.
    Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2022
  • In many places, grasslands and forests coexist in a slow-motion tug-of-war.
    Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022
  • She’s learned to coexist with the felines in her foster home.
    Shelter Staff, Kansas City Star, 17 July 2024
  • Hundreds of native plants listed in the book have evolved to coexist with fire.
    Jeastman, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
  • But experts said most of the dinosaurs shown in the movies didn't coexist during the same timeframe.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 9 June 2022
  • GaN and silicon will coexist for a while in this space.
    IEEE Spectrum, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The shapes and colors seem to embrace and coexist with one another, like strangers who share the same floor of a building.
    Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
  • After a bloody brawl, Beth and Summer agreed to coexist.
    Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 17 June 2023
  • But shark awareness, and learning to coexist with sharks, is becoming a way of life on the Cape.
    Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2022
  • In it, the Tanner clan reunites — except Michelle, of course — and has to re-learn how to all coexist under one roof.
    Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 14 Aug. 2022
  • But Crigler questions whether wolves and cows can live in the same area, much less peacefully coexist.
    Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 29 July 2024
  • Researchers do not have a simple answer to why depression and fatigue coexist.
    Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Walz also noted the successful approaches seen in other countries, like Finland, where gun ownership coexists with significantly lower rates of gun violence.
    Jeremy Yurow, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024

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