How to Use coexist in a Sentence

coexist

verb
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  • The species coexist in the same environment.
  • Can the two countries peacefully coexist?
  • And there is room for all scale and scope of films to coexist.
    — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2023
  • But the pieces fit, even if fans of both orgs would have to learn to coexist.
    — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2021
  • El Conde is many things, some of which tend not to coexist in movies.
    — Vulture, 21 Sep. 2023
  • But the four of us coexist in this film as proper leads.
    — Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • The fact is, the two systems can, and do, coexist in many countries.
    — Leslie Gornstein, CBS News, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Last season, Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown put to rest any talk that the two couldn’t coexist.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2022
  • And there's a lot of people that believe the two cannot coexist.
    — NBC News, 25 June 2021
  • Salem thinks the Endless and the Void can coexist, but Brina points out that all the script pages are blank after the Void arrives.
    — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2021
  • This is one of two systems that could coexist as named storms in the Gulf of Mexico at the same time.
    — Carlie Wells, NOLA.com, 21 Aug. 2020
  • In many places, grasslands and forests coexist in a slow-motion tug-of-war.
    — Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022
  • She’s learned to coexist with the felines in her foster home.
    — Shelter Staff, Kansas City Star, 17 July 2024
  • Hundreds of native plants listed in the book have evolved to coexist with fire.
    — Jeastman, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
  • But experts said most of the dinosaurs shown in the movies didn't coexist during the same timeframe.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 9 June 2022
  • The future What is the plan for coexisting with this virus for the next 1-1/2 to 2 years, when vaccines will be available?
    — cleveland, 24 Mar. 2020
  • GaN and silicon will coexist for a while in this space.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The Mesozoic meat-eaters were able to coexist as state symbols.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2020
  • The shapes and colors seem to embrace and coexist with one another, like strangers who share the same floor of a building.
    — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
  • After a bloody brawl, Beth and Summer agreed to coexist.
    — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 17 June 2023
  • The wild and the managed appeared to coexist easily in this huge mountain of fur and flesh.
    — Christopher Preston, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020
  • The two can coexist, of course — but only one was allowed to exist.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2020
  • But shark awareness, and learning to coexist with sharks, is becoming a way of life on the Cape.
    — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2022
  • The question is not how these images can coexist, but why.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Teams are continuing to study gray whales out in the field, and take note of how the whales coexist with the vessels that share the Bay Area's waters.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 9 Apr. 2021
  • In it, the Tanner clan reunites — except Michelle, of course — and has to re-learn how to all coexist under one roof.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 14 Aug. 2022
  • But Crigler questions whether wolves and cows can live in the same area, much less peacefully coexist.
    — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 29 July 2024
  • Buildings of both styles have coexisted for decades in the United States.
    — Anna Kodé, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Revisionism can coexist with this collective avoidance of global system building and with the thinning out of the international order.
    — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Scientists had an idea of what prehistoric Appalachia looked like: alligators coexisting with tapirs, turtles and carnivores that resemble modern-day red pandas.
    — Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 25 Feb. 2025

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