How to Use hibernate in a Sentence

hibernate

verb

• When the snow falls and the wind howls, the people of Quebec City don’t hibernate.
  — Stephanie Rosenbloom, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2020
• Three months hibernating and the birth of her cubs dropped her weight to 180 pounds.
  — Rj Sangosti, The Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2017
• Some species may have found rock crevices to hibernate in.
  — Corey Buhay, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2024
• Of course the zoo has bears, but those bears are hibernating.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2018
• Keeping the caves closed reduces this threat and lets the bats hibernate in peace.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Mar. 2024
• The Bulldog spirit does not hibernate in times of stress and, yes, even fear.
  — cleveland, 30 Aug. 2020
• The second is to hibernate, re-centre and refill the tank in readiness for the year ahead.
  — Sairah Ashman, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
• If it's cloudy, the rest of winter will be mild and the groundhog will stop hibernating.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2020
• Bengel said a dozen or so bats hibernate in the mine beginning in the late fall.
  — Dennis Hohenberger, courant.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• These frogs can be active all year round and do not hibernate.
  — OregonLive.com, 3 Feb. 2018
• This is one of seven species of bats found in Lake County and the only one that hibernates here.
  — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 23 Apr. 2018
• Big Bear Lake used to hibernate when the snow melted, but not anymore.
  — Roy M. Wallack, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
• There have been reports of brown bears, too warm to hibernate, out looking for meals, too.
  — Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2019
• As evenings shorten and a chill cuts through the air, summer days have been replaced with the urge to hunker down and hibernate.
  — Vogue, 14 Sep. 2017
• The young are born with fangs and venom and may even feed before hibernating for the winter.
  — National Geographic, 22 July 2019
• Voles do not hibernate and are active throughout the year, mostly at dawn and dusk.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2021
• This smallest bear in the world can hibernate for decades before coming back to life.
  — Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2022
• All hail Holly whose healthy heft will help her hibernate until the spring.
  — Jeff Parrott, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Oct. 2019
• Unlike the brown bears and black bears in North America, sun bears do not hibernate for the winter.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
• The genomes show that some mammals like bears evolved to be better at hibernating.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
• The Fat Bear Week tournament is held as the bears attempt to fatten up in time to hibernate for winter.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2023
• This disease causes a fungus-like growth to spread across the bats’ noses, faces and wings while hibernating.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2023
• But the teams that will move for him are playing the Bears — who are hibernating between a rock and hard place — like a Stradivarius.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2024
• The [bats] are hibernating until the end of February and March.
  — Tim Higgins, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2020
• Stephen Miller was settling in to hibernate through the sunny season.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• The rest of the Cavaliers, in kind, hibernated on their laurels.
  — Jake Fischer, SI.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• Spring has arrived at last, but Tesla bears might want to crawl back into their caves to hibernate some more.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2022
• They'd been kept cool enough to hibernate until her performance but hadn't warmed up enough to wake up and fly away when the moment came.
  — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 29 June 2018
• Prairie dogs do not hibernate but may stay underground in bad weather.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 2 Feb. 2024
• While bears may be hibernating during the colder months, other wildlife viewing is ongoing.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2024

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024