How to Use synchronize in a Sentence

synchronize

verb
  • The sound and picture have to synchronize perfectly.
  • The dancers practiced until they synchronized their movements.
  • That will cause the two ends of the wormhole to no longer be synchronized in time.
    Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2023
  • Cutting-edge versions of TMR synchronize the sound cues with the slow waves.
    Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The changing light is synchronized to the music’s beat and vary with tempo changes.
    Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The Golden Girls to date, eat, and do synchronized swimming.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 10 Feb. 2024
  • There are even light features underneath the boat that synchronize to the show.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Skip ahead to this 10th anniversary and 11 houses are a part of the pageantry, all lit up and synchronized to music.
    Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The tradesmen and merchants in town heard the monastery bells ring out eight times a day and began to synchronize their daily tasks to their rhythm.
    Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
  • During non-REM sleep, neurons start to synchronize, turning on and off at the same time.
    Wired, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The leap day is an extra day added every four years to the calendar to synchronize it with the solar year.
    Mallika Kallingal, CNN, 1 Mar. 2020
  • The plan is to synchronize the lights to respond to Brewers home runs and big plays during Bucks games at Fiserv Forum.
    Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The mating calls of male Panama cross-banded tree frogs are synchronized to confuse bats and midges.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The researchers also found that spiders needed to synchronize to sense smaller prey items in the web.
    Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The group is figuring out how to fold in step and pom, where dancers wave pompons while synchronizing their moves.
    Maria Cramer, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Circadian rhythm in the brain is synchronized to the outside world by light and darkness.
    Satchin Panda, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Being outdoors and in daylight for at least 30 minutes each day is a great way to synchronize your brain clock with the outside world.
    Satchin Panda, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Every four years, those quarter days are combined and added to the calendar to synchronize the Earth’s orbit and the passing of the seasons.
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 29 Feb. 2020
  • That clock synchronizes our bodies to the light-dark cycle of the planet by controlling the expression of more than 40% of our genome.
    Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
  • It’s called the Skylight Calendar (15-inch), and its sole purpose is to synchronize schedules in one place, on one main screen, at home.
    Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The wristbands put on a high-quality light show synchronized to the music, and the show ends with beautiful fireworks.
    David Wysong, The Enquirer, 1 July 2023
  • There are many ways to synchronize all the elements of energy cost.
    Alexander Lidow, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • Yet Ukraine and the EU managed to complete a year’s worth of work in two weeks to synchronize their electricity grids at the outset of the invasion.
    Steve Cicala, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • The entire show will be synchronized with a soundtrack that can be accessed at obluminosity.com, where donations can be made.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2023
  • Find a game to play over Zoom or FaceTime, or synchronize a Netflix movie between households.
    Matt Simon, Wired, 28 Oct. 2020
  • To ensure that many worms congregate at the same time, the species synchronizes its reproductive timing with the cycles of the moon.
    Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Since then, some have theorized that the third tone synchronizes brain waves, in a process known as neural entrainment.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Also on Google Meet, in the coming months, users will be able to synchronize and play video or audio so that all participants see or hear it at the same time.
    Washington Post, 11 May 2022
  • The crew and researchers had to set up the cameras in circular configurations, synchronize them and get the sharks to swim through while other fish weren’t in the frames.
    Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2020
  • At a recent rehearsal there, with the Madrids’ 5-month-old daughter looking on, the dancers ran through a section full of silky grooves and sharp, synchronized popping and locking.
    Brian Schaefer, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2020

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