How to Use hibernate in a Sentence

hibernate

verb
  • When the snow falls and the wind howls, the people of Quebec City don’t hibernate.
    Stephanie Rosenbloom, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Three months hibernating and the birth of her cubs dropped her weight to 180 pounds.
    Rj Sangosti, The Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2017
  • Some species may have found rock crevices to hibernate in.
    Corey Buhay, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2024
  • Of course the zoo has bears, but those bears are hibernating.
    Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Keeping the caves closed reduces this threat and lets the bats hibernate in peace.
    Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The Bulldog spirit does not hibernate in times of stress and, yes, even fear.
    cleveland, 30 Aug. 2020
  • The second is to hibernate, re-centre and refill the tank in readiness for the year ahead.
    Sairah Ashman, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
  • If it's cloudy, the rest of winter will be mild and the groundhog will stop hibernating.
    Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Bengel said a dozen or so bats hibernate in the mine beginning in the late fall.
    Dennis Hohenberger, courant.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • As John hibernates and the side effects start to take place, Captain Frank takes charge.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024
  • These frogs can be active all year round and do not hibernate.
    OregonLive.com, 3 Feb. 2018
  • This is one of seven species of bats found in Lake County and the only one that hibernates here.
    Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Big Bear Lake used to hibernate when the snow melted, but not anymore.
    Roy M. Wallack, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
  • The cameras will then be turned off while the snakes are hibernating over the winter, with the live stream set to resume next spring.
    Jack Guy, CNN, 17 July 2024
  • There have been reports of brown bears, too warm to hibernate, out looking for meals, too.
    Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2019
  • As evenings shorten and a chill cuts through the air, summer days have been replaced with the urge to hunker down and hibernate.
    Vogue, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The young are born with fangs and venom and may even feed before hibernating for the winter.
    National Geographic, 22 July 2019
  • Voles do not hibernate and are active throughout the year, mostly at dawn and dusk.
    Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2021
  • This smallest bear in the world can hibernate for decades before coming back to life.
    Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2022
  • All hail Holly whose healthy heft will help her hibernate until the spring.
    Jeff Parrott, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Unlike the brown bears and black bears in North America, sun bears do not hibernate for the winter.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The genomes show that some mammals like bears evolved to be better at hibernating.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The Fat Bear Week tournament is held as the bears attempt to fatten up in time to hibernate for winter.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2023
  • This disease causes a fungus-like growth to spread across the bats’ noses, faces and wings while hibernating.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2023
  • But the teams that will move for him are playing the Bears — who are hibernating between a rock and hard place — like a Stradivarius.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The [bats] are hibernating until the end of February and March.
    Tim Higgins, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Stephen Miller was settling in to hibernate through the sunny season.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The rest of the Cavaliers, in kind, hibernated on their laurels.
    Jake Fischer, SI.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Spring has arrived at last, but Tesla bears might want to crawl back into their caves to hibernate some more.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2022
  • They'd been kept cool enough to hibernate until her performance but hadn't warmed up enough to wake up and fly away when the moment came.
    Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 29 June 2018

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