How to Use simultaneous in a Sentence

simultaneous

adjective

• The two gunshots were simultaneous.
• Any change in the state of one of the particles triggers a simultaneous change in the state of the other.
  — Dhananjay Khadilkar, Scientific American, 2 July 2020
• Stocks and bonds have been in a simultaneous correction for the first time in decades.
  — WSJ, 7 Aug. 2022
• The rebels mounted simultaneous assaults to the north, forcing the roads to close for days.
  — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 24 May 2017
• One saving grace of these simultaneous slumps is that the two teams are well-matched.
  — M.j., The Economist, 31 July 2019
• The plan calls for two simultaneous firework displays — one on the north end and another on the south end of town.
  — Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, Baltimore Sun, 30 June 2023
• There will be simultaneous east and west bus tours, and the east tour starts Aug. 17 in Orlando.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 12 June 2017
• The world’s youngest country faces the simultaneous scourges of civil war, famine and a cholera outbreak.
  — Conor Gaffey, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2017
• Both of us swung our shotguns on the flock and triggered simultaneous shots.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2021
• That tells you quite a bit about the simultaneous chaos and uneventfulness of the Oscars this year.
  — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2021
• However, the simultaneous blows from the storm and her health have made the way ahead difficult.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 28 Sep. 2020
• Hours later, they were jolted awake by the simultaneous buzzing of their cell phones.
  — Catherine Cusick, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• The ballet’s high point comes in the third act, with simultaneous pas de deux outside Musetta’s cafe.
  — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• On Thursday, eight players at a time formed four teams to play two simultaneous games on one court.
  — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
• The team drew up a list of galaxies in the region of sky where the near-simultaneous events were detected and started looking for the source.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2017
• His daughter told him the videos only showed two of three simultaneous fights.
  — Bisma Parvez, Detroit Free Press, 5 Feb. 2020
• The union won the agreements after a six-week strike that was its first simultaneous walkout at all three companies at the same time.
  — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• On May 12, at nine simultaneous press conferences around the world, astrophysicists revealed the first image of the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.
  — Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 23 Aug. 2022
• For some, the simultaneous disappearance of bebtelovimab and Evusheld could almost rewind the clock to the pandemic’s start.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2022
• The boy seemed to trigger simultaneous fear and doting in his mother.
  — Maureen O'Connor, The Cut, 19 Apr. 2018
• Some of the doctors ran simultaneous cases on just a handful of occasions over the past few years.
  — Justin Mayo, The Seattle Times, 26 May 2017
• There are not a lot of words that express two simultaneous emotions.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2021
• The simultaneous presence of two or more diseases in a patient.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
• Jomboy Media shared simultaneous versions of the live broadcast clip and the MLB.com one.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2023
• The pandemic has marked a pause in the wave of unco-ordinated but simultaneous protest movements that crossed much of the world last year.
  — The Economist, 8 June 2020
• Leonard and Pollard never got up to speed with simultaneous fuel pump shaft failures on the restart.
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2018
• Thanks to a new Bluetooth chipset inside, each of the two earbuds makes its own simultaneous connection to your phone.
  — Chris Welch, The Verge, 5 July 2019
• That regression to the hardest line has produced the first simultaneous strikes since 1960.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 9 Sep. 2023
• The near-simultaneous attacks were the first terrorist incidents in Tehran in more than a decade.
  — Jason Cumming, NBC News, 7 June 2017
• Also, the onset of crowd synchrony and the onset of bridge wobbling are not simultaneous.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Oct. 2018

Last Updated: 9 May 2024