How to Use acclimatize in a Sentence

acclimatize

verb
Definition of acclimatizenext
Synonyms for acclimatizenext
  • The mountain climbers spent a few days acclimatizing themselves to the high altitude.
  • The Tilghmans did their best to help the girls acclimatize to their new life.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 2021
  • Weeks 5-8 After those first four weeks to acclimatize to the medicine, your healthcare provider will increase the dosage to 0.5mg.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Give him time to acclimatize to The League, and to learn Shanahan’s complex system.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Children might take a few more days to acclimatize than adults.
    — Susan Yeargin, The Conversation, 20 June 2024
  • Kean may need a little longer to acclimatize to a league which gives a striker far less time on the ball, and much less space to manoeuvre.
    — SI.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Both the North and South Col routes house camps at varying heights, where climbers acclimatize and refuel.
    — Andrea Lo, CNN, 11 Sep. 2017
  • He will be trained by NBA people and begin acclimatizing to pro ball in a way that benefits him and the league.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 18 Apr. 2020
  • Most teams are fully acclimatized and just waiting on a good weather window to go for the summit.
    — Marianne Scully | Mscully@al.com, AL.com, 12 May 2017
  • DiCristino said he’s seen only one sure-fire way to reduce the sweat effect, and that’s to acclimatize.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • The Swiss climber was acclimatizing himself to try and climb Mount Everest next month without oxygen on a new route.
    — Si Wire, SI.com, 30 Apr. 2017
  • The best way to get acclimatized is to stay at the Grandview Campground, a primitive camp at an elevation of 8,500 feet.
    — Paul McHugh, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Across the border in Nepal, teams of climbers were still ascending to high camps to acclimatize before making attempts at the summit.
    — Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 6 May 2022
  • To help Pulisic acclimatize to the move to a foreign country, with an entirely new language, father Mark also came over to Dortmund and joined the club as a coach.
    — Ben Morse, CNN, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Our bodies can acclimatize to heat over a period of weeks, giving us the ability to sweat more.
    — WIRED, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Once again, Kleitman had been unable to acclimatize to a 28‑hour schedule while his student had done so within two weeks.
    — Discover Magazine, 14 June 2024
  • Climbers have begun to settle in at the base camp to acclimatize to the weather and altitude while the Sherpas place ladders and ropes and carry supplies to the upper camps for their clients.
    — Binaj Gurubacharya, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
  • And for me, robots are very different and not acclimatized.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The first is to ascend altitude slowly and give yourself time to acclimatize.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 14 June 2023
  • Buchanan placed a heavy emphasis on Utah’s ability to acclimatize to the conditions in Gainesville.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2022
  • This new class of players has been (and will continue to be) afforded less time to acclimatize to the NFL game than any other in recent history.
    — Luke Johnson, NOLA.com, 10 Aug. 2020
  • We're being given a chance to acclimatize to our new reality and sit with our emotions.
    — Venus Australis, refinery29.com, 21 June 2020
  • And a recent research review from Army researchers concluded that all humans seem to have at least some ability to acclimatize to the cold.
    — Markham Heid, Time, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Here, the three female and two male rhinos slowly acclimatized to the prospect of life in the wild, with subtle diet changes, increased contact with each other, and crate containment practice for the long flight ahead.
    — Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 June 2019
  • To prepare for heat, become acclimatized to hot weather.
    — Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 22 June 2024
  • Community seed stores are really the best idea, because seeds saved in a specific area will be acclimatized for that area.
    — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 2 Aug. 2017
  • But finding other art requires close looking — acclimatizing oneself to the landscape of signs and posters hanging on walls and from ceilings.
    — Aruna D’souza, New York Times, 21 June 2023
  • Fahrenheit, there were enough days to acclimatize and establish the camps, and then on summit day, the windchill was more manageable at minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
    — Alan Arnette, Outside Online, 16 Jan. 2021
  • The organizers recommend runners arrive in Leh one to two weeks before the run, to acclimatize.
    — Nimisha Jaiswal, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Most climbers who summit Everest spend 60 to 70 days doing so, in order to acclimatize themselves to the atmosphere at high altitudes.
    — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 26 June 2019

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