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?
  • Some can cause illness, but many simply coexist with you.
    — David Pride, Scientific American, 7 Dec. 2020
  • So the best way to coexist with them is with humane deterrents.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Foy said residents could refer to Keepmewild.org to learn ways to coexist with coyotes and other wildlife.
    — Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 13 Dec. 2020
  • The user interface is complicated and messy, largely due to the sheer volume of stuff being forced to coexist in the same place.
    — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • These numbers, however, coexist with a dismal political track record.
    — Lucien Chauvin, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Nov. 2020
  • There’s room to coexist because Hollywood delivers different content, but caution remains about what will and will not work.
    — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 15 Jan. 2025
  • When asked to revisit why the Wolves couldn't coexist with Butler beyond one playoff season, Wiggins laughed again and demurred.
    — Chris Hine, Star Tribune, 24 Jan. 2021
  • Its inhabitants coexist in peace, and all nationalities are welcomed.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • GaN and silicon will coexist for a while in this space.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • These details offer invaluable insights for identifying patterns in shark populations, such as which species coexisted, their feeding behaviors, and how these changed over time.
    — Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025

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