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.
  • The more synchronized the display, the louder the cheer from the crowds.
    Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2017
  • That will cause the two ends of the wormhole to no longer be synchronized in time.
    Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2023
  • Which means that the way that the music is synchronized with the film can be changed from night to night.
    BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The opening blast, from 2013, is even synchronized to the music.
    Time, Time, 14 Sep. 2017
  • When things are working well, the SCN keeps all of the other body clocks synchronized.
    WSJ, 11 Apr. 2017
  • Cutting-edge versions of TMR synchronize the sound cues with the slow waves.
    Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Sing along to sounds of the season synchronized to each display.
    Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Cook added that the lights can be programmed to flash or be synchronized to music.
    Pete Grathoff, kansascity, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The changing light is synchronized to the music’s beat and vary with tempo changes.
    Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Sergio Busquets and Dani Parejo look very much synchronized with the pace of the game.
    SI.com, 10 June 2019
  • But Australia took the synchro out of synchronized on the last dive, allowing Britain to take the bronze.
    John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2024
  • 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
  • This is a Vinyasa-style practice, which synchronizes breath and movement and flows from one position to the next.
    Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The orbit is synchronized with that of the moon; for every lunar orbit, TESS does two.
    Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 19 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • For example, schools would have to go to four-day weeks to synchronize the schedules of parents and children.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2019
  • Immediately, Matveev was on the phone to Lites again to synchronize a new plan.
    Keith Gave, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2018
  • At several points the blades seem to be synchronizing with the rise and fall of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony on the stereo.
    Mark C. Anderson, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The mating calls of male Panama cross-banded tree frogs are synchronized to confuse bats and midges.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 17 July 2024
  • 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
  • Showers have long been the place for a good cry—now high-end spas are tapping into the world of sensory showers with colored lights and synchronized water for next-level catharsis.
    Maria Yogoda, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Clark is among the scientists who have numerous anecdotes about whales synchronizing their behavior from great distances.
    Joanna Thompson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2024

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