On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Hibernate. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as sleep or kip and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Hibernate in a sentence
Hibernate meaning
- To spend the winter in a dormant or inactive state of minimal activity, low body temperature, slow breathing and heart rate, and low metabolic rate; to go through a winter sleep.
- To live in seclusion.
- To enter a standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.
Using Hibernate
- The main meaning on this page is: To spend the winter in a dormant or inactive state of minimal activity, low body temperature, slow breathing and heart rate, and low metabolic rate; to go through a winter sleep. | To live in seclusion. | To enter a standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.
- Useful related words include: hole up, sleep, kip, slumber.
- In the example corpus, hibernate often appears in combinations such as: to hibernate, hibernate and, not hibernate.
Context around Hibernate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 1 questions, 2 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hibernate
- In this selection, "hibernate" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, species, regions, others, mode, underground and meaning stand out and add context to how "hibernate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ability to hibernate and causes and all species hibernate alike. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hibernate" sits close to words such as abenaki, adria and afn, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hibernate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Animals which hibernate, like dormice, are especially threatened. (8 words)
Certain critters hibernate or go into low-power mode. (9 words)
But where do the reptiles actually go, and do they hibernate? (11 words)
Many dragonfly species migrate from the Gulf to the Midwest in the spring, while others hibernate as nymphs underwater throughout the winter until it is warm enough to become the more identifiable flying insects. (34 words)
I daresay that summer 2020 is one we’d all rather have slept through due to you-know-what, but in most years I’d still opt to hibernate through summer if I could. (34 words)
As Teton County rolls into fall with cooler temperatures and the first snow of the season, bears are making their way to lower elevations, looking for food as they prepare to hibernate for winter. (34 words)
But where do the reptiles actually go, and do they hibernate? (11 words)
The bears have been sent to hibernate, and it’s time to chase new all-time highs! (17 words)
Different species of bats go about hibernation a little differently – not all species hibernate alike! (15 words)
Example sentences (20)
According to the National Audubon Society “Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians,” garter snakes living in northern regions hibernate in community dens, often under large rocks or inside mammal burrows.
Animals which hibernate, like dormice, are especially threatened.
But where do the reptiles actually go, and do they hibernate?
Cicadas do not hibernate but burrow underground and survive off tree root sap.
Implement power management settings on computers to automatically enter sleep or hibernate mode after inactivity.
It interferes with this species's ability to hibernate and causes them to lose more water than it would in most situations," he said.
Many dragonfly species migrate from the Gulf to the Midwest in the spring, while others hibernate as nymphs underwater throughout the winter until it is warm enough to become the more identifiable flying insects.
Mark Brigham, a professor of biology at the University of Regina who has studied bats for 40 years, says small brown bats usually hibernate underground.
The bears have been sent to hibernate, and it’s time to chase new all-time highs!
Certain critters hibernate or go into low-power mode.
This time of year is particularly challenging for hedgehogs, as they start looking for places to hibernate when the weather becomes cold, wet, dark and windy.
Bears may hibernate during the snow and ice-filled months, but we don’t (necessarily) have to.
Biello: In your introduction to this volume, Zoë, you write, “We don’t hibernate” - meaning humans don’t.
I daresay that summer 2020 is one we’d all rather have slept through due to you-know-what, but in most years I’d still opt to hibernate through summer if I could.
In an effort to stave off excessive financial loss and potential growing number of restaurants around Boston have made the difficult decision to hibernate.
It goes on to show the friendship between a bear and a hare until the bear departs to hibernate when snow starts to fall.
After observing her hajj in Saudi Arabia, she went to London, United Kingdom to hibernate.
As Teton County rolls into fall with cooler temperatures and the first snow of the season, bears are making their way to lower elevations, looking for food as they prepare to hibernate for winter.
Different species of bats go about hibernation a little differently – not all species hibernate alike!
Four of the state’s bat species hibernate and four species migrate.
Common combinations with hibernate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to hibernate 14×
- hibernate and 6×
- not hibernate 4×
- hibernate until 3×
- hibernate or 2×
- hibernate when 2×
- hibernate during 2×
- hibernate for 2×
- species hibernate 2×
- and hibernate 2×