On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Overwintering. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Overwintering meaning
present participle and gerund of overwinter
Using Overwintering
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of overwinter
- In the example corpus, overwintering often appears in combinations such as: overwintering in, of overwintering.
Context around Overwintering
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 5 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Overwintering
- In this selection, "overwintering" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, tracking, bad, fires, budworms and days stand out and add context to how "overwintering" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after overwintering they resume and also has overwintering waterfowl in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "overwintering" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with overwintering
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Mulching is the best insurance for overwintering mums. (8 words)
The Bay also has overwintering waterfowl in its wildlife refuges. (10 words)
It is believed that the virus somehow survives in overwintering midges or animals. (13 words)
To do this, Maine opened the country’s only spruce budworm lab, where limbs from hundreds of areas across Maine are taken each winter and inspected for signs of overwintering budworms: cocoons. (32 words)
By regularly changing crops and keeping the soil occupied by cover crops instead of lying fallow, pest cycles can be broken or limited, especially cycles that benefit from overwintering in residue. (31 words)
Others may remain active for a longer period (from one to several weeks), or go through diapause and overwintering as monarch butterflies do, or waiting out environmental stress. (28 words)
Example sentences (15)
While adults can't survive subzero temperatures, hatchling use supercooling to prevent their bodies from freezing while overwintering in their nests.
Cut back potted plants to 6 inches before overwintering in a sunny window indoors.
The service is tracking overwintering fires, she said, and making sure people are aware of when and where they are allowed to set a fire.
To do this, Maine opened the country’s only spruce budworm lab, where limbs from hundreds of areas across Maine are taken each winter and inspected for signs of overwintering budworms: cocoons.
I suspect there were probably some bad overwintering days last winter for our local predators.
After overwintering, they resume feeding in the spring and eventually pupate and emerge as adults to start the cycle over.
Mulching is the best insurance for overwintering mums.
Overwintering blazes, if they emerge from warm and dry conditions, would only be contained to the original perimeter of the smouldering area.
Sakowski loved the color, asked for a cutting, and has admired its flowers ever since, overwintering the geranium in his greenhouse.
By regularly changing crops and keeping the soil occupied by cover crops instead of lying fallow, pest cycles can be broken or limited, especially cycles that benefit from overwintering in residue.
In the autumn (or in spring, in the case of overwintering onions), the foliage dies down and the outer layers of the bulb become dry and brittle.
It is believed that the virus somehow survives in overwintering midges or animals.
Only 48 bird species regularly nest along the river, while others use the river as a migration corridor or as overwintering habitat.
Others may remain active for a longer period (from one to several weeks), or go through diapause and overwintering as monarch butterflies do, or waiting out environmental stress.
The Bay also has overwintering waterfowl in its wildlife refuges.
Common combinations with overwintering
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- overwintering in 3×
- of overwintering 2×