How to Use acclimate in a Sentence

acclimate

verb
Definition of acclimatenext
Synonyms for acclimatenext
  • We took a few days to get acclimated to our new teacher.
  • I acclimated myself to the hot weather.
  • You might need to acclimate your plants to bright sunlight gradually.
  • With more time, the anemones might recover or the clown fish could acclimate to conditions.
    — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The recovery team held them in an smaller pen for a while to wear off the sedative and acclimate them to their new surroundings.
    — Alex Devoid, azcentral, 27 Mar. 2018
  • However, there are things the team has to sharpen up in order to prepare for next year and get new players acclimated to the team.
    — Alvaro Montano, Houston Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2018
  • D'Anna has been a steady hitter since acclimating to college softball as a freshman.
    — Sam Brief, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Shohei Ohtani did not need long to get acclimated at Angel Stadium.
    — Khadrice Rollins, SI.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Featured on lot of smoke screens and simple drag routes to get the ball into his hands in space and may need time acclimating to a more sophisticated route tree...
    — cleveland.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Meanwhile, Nguyen acclimated to the game on the junior varsity that season.
    — Glae Thien, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Chef Berg is already acclimating to the Houston lifestyle.
    — Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Two years later, not only is everyone acclimated to what Knowles wants to call, but they are experienced.
    — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The season starts in May, and the franchises will hold a training camp of sorts in the two weeks prior to get their players acclimated to one another.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Veterans are not interested in spending years re-acclimating to civilian life.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Davis treats George as something halfway between a child and a co-worker who’s in a unique position to help other gorillas acclimate to their new home at the refuge.
    — Tasha Robinson, The Verge, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Hundreds of climbers cleared to scale Everest were acclimating there, officials said, including a record number of Nepali women climbers.
    — Time, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Going forward: Moved to the bench after an expectedly rapid recovery from a torn quadriceps tendon, but never seemed to fully acclimate.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Apr. 2018
  • As noted, doing so will promote language skills and cognitive development while also acclimating children to books and providing valuable time for them to bond with their parents.
    — chicagotribune.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Moreover, the panelists emphasized there are ways for people to acclimate themselves to today’s workplace, starting with by obtaining education.
    — Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • This will help the rose bush acclimate to its new home.
    — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Fields could use a season to acclimate to the NFL, and the 49ers have a veteran in place.
    — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2021
  • This could be set up days before the event to acclimate your pets.
    — Iris Katz, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 19 Dec. 2020
  • My body knows that stress and how to adjust to it, how to acclimate itself to it.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
  • Aaron Rodgers acclimates, well enough, to new head coach Matt LaFleur’s scheme.
    — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 23 July 2019
  • Davis changed teams and wanted time to acclimate to the Lakers.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2019
  • That said, there wasn’t much time to acclimate to the varsity game.
    — Gregg Voss, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • For Klein, it’s taken some time to acclimate to the majors.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2024
  • The students were part of a summer camp designed to help acclimate them to high school.
    — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Most spend the night at one of the nearby trail camps to help get acclimated to the altitude.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2019
  • Legge transitioned seamlessly after playing her freshman year at Howard and Stewart quickly acclimated to the varsity level.
    — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 2 Nov. 2024

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