How to Use acclimatize in a Sentence

acclimatize

verb
  • The mountain climbers spent a few days acclimatizing themselves to the high altitude.
  • Children might take a few more days to acclimatize than adults.
    — Susan Yeargin, The Conversation, 20 June 2024
  • The Tilghmans did their best to help the girls acclimatize to their new life.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 2021
  • The body needs the slow ascent to acclimatize.
    — Cecilia Vega, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
  • On deck, the cava is flowing and guests are acclimatizing to the heat and waves.
    — Alexandra Pereira, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Used like this, your skin should slowly become acclimatized to retinal.
    — Jacqueline Kilikita, refinery29.com, 29 July 2024
  • Most teams are fully acclimatized and just waiting on a good weather window to go for the summit.
    — Marianne Scully | [email protected], AL.com, 12 May 2017
  • Kean may need a little longer to acclimatize to a league which gives a striker far less time on the ball, and much less space to manoeuvre.
    — SI.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Experts suggest trying to acclimatize your body for days or weeks ahead of time by spending more time outdoors.
    — Amudalat Ajasa, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The colorful lizards are acclimatized for cool mountain places, like the Mules.
    — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Let’s end with a great all-rounder—and a good product for getting acclimatized to using a body cream in your grooming routine.
    — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 8 May 2026
  • This refers to the process of acclimatizing them to outside conditions.
    — Marianne Willburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Mar. 2026
  • This refers to the process of acclimatizing them to outside conditions.
    — Marianne Willburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Our bodies can acclimatize to heat over a period of weeks, giving us the ability to sweat more.
    — WIRED, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The first is to ascend altitude slowly and give yourself time to acclimatize.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 14 June 2023
  • We're being given a chance to acclimatize to our new reality and sit with our emotions.
    — Venus Australis, refinery29.com, 21 June 2020
  • DiCristino said he’s seen only one sure-fire way to reduce the sweat effect, and that’s to acclimatize.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • And people with the sickle-cell trait might be well-advised to acclimatize before doing sports at high altitudes.
    — Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2026
  • So that is going to be interesting to see teenagers keeping a secret and trying to acclimatize and get better.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Both the North and South Col routes house camps at varying heights, where climbers acclimatize and refuel.
    — Andrea Lo, CNN, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Give him time to acclimatize to The League, and to learn Shanahan’s complex system.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The threshold for what is considered a hot night differs by location and how acclimatized its residents are to heat.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Community seed stores are really the best idea, because seeds saved in a specific area will be acclimatized for that area.
    — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 2 Aug. 2017
  • My assumption is that the homeowners in question don’t spend enough time in their fancy mountainside chalets to acclimatize.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Across the border in Nepal, teams of climbers were still ascending to high camps to acclimatize before making attempts at the summit.
    — Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 6 May 2022
  • Over time, however, Auggie began to acclimatize to his new surroundings and grew close to staff at the shelter.
    — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Once again, Kleitman had been unable to acclimatize to a 28‑hour schedule while his student had done so within two weeks.
    — Discover Magazine, 14 June 2024
  • New workers should have a chance to gradually acclimatize to heat, be trained for emergencies and to monitor for heat symptoms.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 18 June 2024
  • He will be trained by NBA people and begin acclimatizing to pro ball in a way that benefits him and the league.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 18 Apr. 2020
  • But finding other art requires close looking — acclimatizing oneself to the landscape of signs and posters hanging on walls and from ceilings.
    — Aruna D’souza, New York Times, 21 June 2023

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