How to Use overwinter in a Sentence

overwinter

verb

• The geese will overwinter in a warmer climate.
• Once maple leaves fall, spores from the spots can overwinter in the soil.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• Not to mention the dead deer that had overwintered in the swimming pool.
  — ELLE Decor, 26 June 2023
• At the end of the season, clean up leaf debris to make sure diseases and pests don’t overwinter.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 7 Apr. 2023
• This greenhouse can be used to overwinter plants, grow new ones, or for seedlings.
  — Stacy Tornio, Treehugger, 24 Jan. 2023
• Adults overwinter in leaf litter and emerge in spring to devour prey.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2023
• Fungal spores can overwinter on canes and dead leaves and then rain can spread spores to healthy tissues.
  — oregonlive, 14 May 2022
• Spring leeks are dirty at heart, filled with more soil than other leeks because they’ve been overwintered in the field.
  — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• The daylilies are hardy plants that have overwintered in a club garden in Wisconsin.
  — Elaine Rewolinski, Journal Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
• De Gerlache had not planned to overwinter—no man ever had—but he was forced to do so when ice froze around the ship in March.
  — Sara Wheeler, WSJ, 12 May 2021
• Few hives overwinter in Alaska due to the cold, but some people keep bees in their basements.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2019
• Now is a great time to plant garlic cloves for a crop to overwinter and be harvested around the Fourth of July next year.
  — Miri Talabac, baltimoresun.com, 7 Oct. 2021
• Though adult worms die with the first frost, the egg cases overwinter in soil or organic matter, ready to hatch in spring.
  — Cindy Dampier, chicagotribune.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• Here's how to overwinter your plants: Remove dead or dying foliage from the plant.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 21 Feb. 2024
• Early spring is best because many insects overwinter in plants, and the native seed heads are a good food source for birds in the winter.
  — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2018
• Or keeping bundles of hollow stems tucked around so that insects can overwinter or lay their eggs in the pithy stems.
  — Janet Draper, Smithsonian, 25 Jan. 2017
• The tick was able to overwinter in Connecticut, Molaei said.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 16 Aug. 2021
• The counts are done about a month apart at 169 overwintering sites, to see how the monarch populations change during the winter.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• In addition, eggs also overwinter on plant debris and hatch in the spring.
  — Jeff Lowenfels | Alaska Gardening and Growing, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Mar. 2023
• Geraniums are also easy to root in water to make more of them for your garden, or to overwinter them.
  — Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 June 2023
• Many pollinators overwinter in the dead stems and leaves as eggs, pupae or adults.
  — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2020
• This bulb will not overwinter outside in the Chicago region.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 22 Jan. 2022
• And have also overwintered even hardier field beans outside.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 24 Sep. 2023
• The flies overwinter inside our of homes, hibernating in the walls, ceilings and crawl spaces.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 8 June 2017
• Here are some resources that give different ways to overwinter plants.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2021
• Lindisfarne established a pattern of Viking hit-and-run raids in the summer months, but by the 850s, some of these raiders were choosing to overwinter in England.
  — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
• Many native ladybugs prefer to overwinter in leaf litter and mulch, Losey says, so leave those undisturbed in a part of your yard.
  — Kate Morgan, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• Spring tilling can kill overwintering pupae in the soil.
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 24 May 2018
• Best of all, the plants can be overwintered in the vegetable garden and used again, or incorporated into the garden.
  — Margaret Roach, New York Times, 15 May 2020
• Store Well Moist, ventilated storage is key to overwintering dahlia tubers.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024