How to Use synchronous in a Sentence

synchronous

adjective
  • Earth has been stuck with the synchronous side for billions of years.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2019
  • Their synchronous styles just go to show that great minds think alike (or dress alike, in this case).
    Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 26 Aug. 2017
  • Now, this doesn’t mean there isn’t a time and place for synchronous meetings and live events.
    Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024
  • This was a great idea, but the cameras of the time had trouble shooting synchronous sound.
    Bart Weiss, Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2019
  • One hour of synchronous instruction in the spring didn’t cut it.
    oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2020
  • To make things more synchronous, the actress is 46—which is the same age her grandmother was when she was born.
    Keyaira Kelly, Essence, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Soehn predicted the synchronous fireflies in the Great Smoky Mountains will peak with their light show around June 7.
    Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News, 22 May 2018
  • The synchronous fireflies live in the Smokies but have been spotted in other pockets of the country.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Each year, typically in the spring, the fireflies put on a synchronous light display in order to find a mate.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Each year, typically in the spring, the fireflies put on a synchronous light display in order to find a mate.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2024
  • The synchronous brain waves are then an expression of the empathy.
    Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 4 Mar. 2018
  • The synchronous opening and closing of the valves and the harmonious movement of blood through the vessels pump life into your being.
    Essence, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Swarms of synchronous fireflies are rather like melting ice, or at least that’s how Raphael Sarfati, a physicist, sees it.
    New York Times, 7 July 2021
  • Go in early summer to catch the exceptional synchronous fireflies that light up the night sky for a week or two each year.
    Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
  • On the surface, Slack seems like a synchronous communication tool, like the chat rooms and IM programs of old.
    Whitson Gordon, Wired, 9 July 2020
  • These synchronous styles posed the same challenge of attempting to control the pace while slowing down their opponent on the break.
    Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com, 4 Feb. 2022
  • But the largest boon from the combination of synchronous and asynchronous instruction comes from the extra hours gained in the morning for my teen and tween to sleep.
    Sarah Maraniss Vander Schaaff, Washington Post, 9 June 2020
  • The Garden turned from a place of funereal silence to one united by a loud, synchronous chant.
    Alana Semuels, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2017
  • Scientists got wise to the presence of synchronous fireflies in the U.S. in the 1990’s, thanks to the efforts of Faust, a citizen naturalist.
    Pien Huang, NPR, 26 May 2024
  • Even with the cost of maintaining four satellites in geo-synchronous orbit, SiriusXM comes out ahead.
    Glenn Peoples, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2019
  • To superimpose synchronous music on this film seemed to me to betray completely in the spirit of the project.
    Jamie Lang, Variety, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The moon rotates at the same rate as its orbital motion (synchronous rotation), with one side facing Earth (the near side) and one facing away (the far side) at any point in time.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2024
  • But despite the synchronous display, only the most dominant of the alpha male turkeys—six out of 170—are allowed to mate.
    Mark Strauss, National Geographic, 22 Nov. 2016
  • A single 170-hp permanent-magnet synchronous AC motor just ahead of the rear axle (next to the range extender, in this case) powers the rear wheels.
    Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 24 Aug. 2017
  • The permanent-magnet synchronous rear motor is new and improved and weighs about 260 pounds.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 25 July 2023
  • Fishing and rare synchronous fireflies round out some of the park’s more famous offerings.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 6 May 2023
  • But the nexus of true talent and economic celebrity are not always synchronous.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
  • One parent said the synchronous timing of stoplights on Franklin allows motorists to sometimes drive more than 50 mph.
    Ricardo Cano, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Monday’s Wordle answer, however, felt a little too synchronous with the news — and left the New York Times scrambling to change it in real time.
    Washington Post, 9 May 2022
  • Rocket Lab plans to primarily deliver payloads to Sun-synchronous orbits, which means the satellite will pass over the same parts of the Earth at the same time each day.
    Mika McKinnon, Smithsonian, 26 Jan. 2018

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