How to Use hybridize in a Sentence

hybridize

verb

• The notion of hybridizing the cars came up over lunch one day.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 10 June 2019
• There are websites that assert the plants have been hybridized to need less water.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
• These are roses that haven’t been hybridized (cross-bred with other plants).
  — Erynn Hassinger, Country Living, 22 Feb. 2023
• There are so many ways to hybridize your event other than just live streaming to at-home viewers.
  — Dave Oury, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
• The next step in Honda's plan to hybridize its lineup will come in the form of the 2024 Civic Hybrid, which will be offered both as a sedan and a hatchback.
  — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 25 Jan. 2023
• Carpenter will show examples of the changes and also speak on how to hybridize and grow from seed.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2019
• Although both parents are from China, their seeds were brought to Europe and hybridized in France.
  — Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 18 May 2024
• They have been hybridized for years to produce a big, bold and bodacious display of color.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 8 May 2020
• The strategy includes plans to hybridize the marque’s entire lineup by 2024 and introduce its first EV by the end of the decade.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 10 Nov. 2021
• Exacerbating the problem is the bigleaf lupine will hybridize with the wild lupine and outcompete the pure native wild lupine.
  — Jennifer Rude Klett, Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2023
• The sunflower was taken to Russia, where it was grown and hybridized as an oil-producing plant.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 June 2018
• Therefore, the hybridization helps us because at this time, our model range will be hybridized.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2023
• And even plants, which hybridize promiscuously, are often ill-served by it.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2013
• The Jeep Wrangler is already hybridized in four-cylinder form, and by the time the Bronco reaches the market, a Wrangler plug-in hybrid will have arrived.
  — Bengt Halvorson, Car and Driver, 9 May 2019
• The new gas and hybridized 2.0-liter engines, six-speed manual, and new CVT apparently count for just four of those options.
  — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 28 Feb. 2018
• Funky Pink was hybridized by Benary Seed, which to be honest has kind of become the begonia guru in the gardening world.
  — Norman Winter, sacbee, 6 July 2018
• However, the two chickadee species do sometimes mate and hybridize along the zone, meaning scent isn’t the only cue that leads to reproduction.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 Nov. 2019
• For now, Porsche is holding back from hybridizing its sports cars, citing weight and size as a reason to hold off for the promise of solid state batteries.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 May 2018
• Snow geese and specklebellies are also known to hybridize.
  — Ryan Chelius, Outdoor Life, 1 Mar. 2021
• Originally hybridized in Brazil in the 1950s, the killer bees had migrated north through Mexico.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
• Some species, like mallard ducks, do hybridize frequently.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024
• The Hungarian team had every reason to be confident that their fish could not hybridize.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2020
• One of the things, for example, that happens now in modern-day Oaxaca is that people mix [Mixtec] sometimes, and hybridize it with Spanish.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 14 Dec. 2018
• Back in July, Volvo made the rest of the industry look bad, announcing five new electric vehicles as part of its plan to electrify or hybridize its range.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2017
• But when different species hybridize, beneficial genes that have evolved in one species can, through mating with the hybrid, migrate to the other species in the blink of an evolutionary eye.
  — Daniel Rubinoff, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2022
• In that case, could allowing two separate but wholly Cuban species to hybridize prove more palatable from a social perspective?
  — Shanna Baker, Smithsonian, 21 June 2018
• But European honeybees began hybridizing with African bees in the 1990s.
  — Lauren Castle, azcentral, 21 Mar. 2018
• Really, when hybridized with military and workwear, sportswear is just the vernacular of what everybody wears on the street.
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 12 June 2017
• Scientists predict that melting Arctic ice will lead more than 20 marine mammals to hybridize.
  — Ilnar Salakhiev, National Geographic, 24 Feb. 2017
• Often several sunfish species inhabit the same water, and some species hybridize.
  — Popular Science, 1 June 2020

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024