How to Use harmonize in a Sentence

harmonize

verb
  • A group of singers were harmonizing on the street corner.
  • The background music is not harmonized with the action on-screen.
  • Their beliefs did not always harmonize.
  • The singers harmonized their voices beautifully.
  • Maybe someday the two will swap verses and harmonize all of our problems away.
    Brenton Blanchet, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Great fried chicken is juicy, crispy and packs a little heat so your beverage has to be able to harmonize with that.
    Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2019
  • Mind your neighbors: Look at the roofs around yours and choose a shingle color that harmonizes.
    Marni Jameson, The Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Both state and federal managers have worked for years to harmonize their disparate rules as much as practicable.
    Julie Cart, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Most early Delta blues musicians played simple guitar figures that harmonized with their voices.
    New York Times, 29 Sep. 2019
  • The sun harmonizes with wound-healing Chiron today, helping to ease anxieties.
    USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Radin and Hoffman co-write songs with self-awareness and a sense of humor, switching off on lead vocal duties and harmonizing with a hint of twang on choruses that swell with earnest emotion.
    Karen Muller, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The basic idea behind the U.C.C. is to provide states with a strategy on harmonizing their commercial laws.
    Michael McCann, SI.com, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Then Leela starts to harmonize, and the second voice throbs against the first.
    Anna Peele, Washington Post, 24 June 2020
  • The result: The blobs can both sing and harmonize based on sound.
    Fortune, 20 May 2021
  • The straight, wide-but-not-too-wide pants add a sense of swagger, and in light tan, harmonize with the rest of the rig.
    Aleks Cvetkovic, Robb Report, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Sealing the deal: the group’s pristine harmonizing on the song’s hook as the cypher came to an end.
    Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The tenor of his speeches would harmonize with the public mood.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 1 July 2023
  • At the center of Biden’s efforts will be a push to harmonize the U.S. response.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2021
  • As fans are well aware, this won’t be the first time the Grammy winners have harmonized.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The three New Guinea singing dogs — which don’t bark but rather harmonize with each other — are a mom and two sons.
    Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Friends and colleagues are early adopters as the moon and Jupiter harmonize.
    USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Creating plans that harmonize our ideals with lessons learned will bring us to the right place.
    Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Paris on a gray day, when light is harmonized with its absence and nothing dares to be so crass as to flash.
    Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The answer to that question may appear while the Pisces moon harmonizes with the Cancer sun.
    USA TODAY, 26 June 2024
  • The design and style should harmonize with the aesthetics of your home and landscape.
    Katie Dubow, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 July 2023
  • But when the meal was instead a large, thrashing insect, the arachnids didn’t need to harmonize to sense it.
    Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Jones then joins in for her soulful vocals as the two artists sing to each other and harmonize on the chorus.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2023
  • All are harmonized, testing for the same substances at the same levels.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2023
  • Luna will also harmonize with the sun, while Venus dances with Mars.
    Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
  • Simpson punctuated the verses with lyrical lead guitar parts, harmonizing with bandmate Laur Joamets’ playing.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2024

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