How to Use acclimation in a Sentence

acclimation

noun
  • The Rams are in the midst of a two-week acclimation phase of training camp.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2020
  • The first few miles with the 488 took some acclimation.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 12 Aug. 2017
  • The hazing shown in the video took place in the school’s heat acclimation room, Hunter says.
    Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2022
  • That means the acclimation period is over and the full pads came out for the first time this fall.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Even for the hottest place on Earth, there’s a threshold for heat acclimation.
    Paige Vega, Vox, 7 June 2024
  • This has been a year of partial acclimation to that fact.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Think that was the result of acclimation to the role or did the line just do a superior job?
    Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
  • For Skelton, that trimmed much of the acclimation time.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The Rams remain in the acclimation phase of training camp.
    Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022
  • This acclimation can lead to faster times no matter if the weather is cool or hot.
    Greg Hosier, Outside Online, 2 Aug. 2019
  • The first day is always about acclimation, setting a tone and a starting point to build on over the next 14 practices.
    oregonlive, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The rest of the veterans will join them on the field for their acclimation period Aug. 3-11.
    Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 1 Aug. 2020
  • Georgescu says his own life is a case study for this acclimation.
    Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Bruce, who is also a mother of three, was the last one to join, doing her heat acclimation at her home in Flagstaff.
    Logan Stanley, The Arizona Republic, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Take the high end of that timetable and add a week for conditioning/re-acclimation.
    Ryan O'Halloran, The Denver Post, 19 July 2019
  • The 6-foot-9 forward said the biggest acclimation thus far has been getting used to the different spacing, and to the speed of the players.
    Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Sep. 2021
  • What was the acclimation like moving from Kansas City to New York?
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The original plan was for his team to leave on Wednesday and play the next day without much acclimation time.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The first is acclimation due to the longtime, prominent role of Black people in sports.
    Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Maybe there’s an argument to be made that Bosa could have used a few reps to get back to game speed, but that acclimation isn’t worth the injury risk.
    Derrik Klassen, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2023
  • But the coaching staff wants to put him through the pregame paces with the offensive line to continue his acclimation process.
    Colleen Kane, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2021
  • As part of the acclimation process, all cats spend several weeks in a large enclosure on the grounds of the site to establish a home base.
    Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The school hopes to have all players back on campus Sept. 10, hold five days of practice and heat acclimation and host Valley Head on Sept. 18.
    Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 27 Aug. 2020
  • But Smith has met all benchmarks in the team’s acclimation phases.
    Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2020
  • But how lengthy an acclimation period would the 25-year-old Lock need?
    Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 11 May 2022
  • Most items that come before it in committee advance to the full body by acclimation and don't require a roll call.
    Arkansas Online, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The two males, raised in Illinois, had lived in a small fenced-in corner of the lake for several weeks as an acclimation period.
    Ryan Gillespie, orlandosentinel.com, 8 July 2019
  • Driving with just one pedal does take some acclimation, but the learning curve seems low.
    Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 21 Dec. 2017
  • This year, the rookies’ on-field acclimation will get ramped up 10-fold, forced into a two-week period this month.
    John Owning, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Having a blind cat can seem daunting to prospective adopters, but the humane society assures people that Spyro will be just fine with just a little extra acclimation time to her new space.
    Julia Daye, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2024

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