How to Use acclimate in a Sentence

acclimate

verb
  • We took a few days to get acclimated to our new teacher.
  • I acclimated myself to the hot weather.
  • You might need to acclimate your plants to bright sunlight gradually.
  • This could be set up days before the event to acclimate your pets.
    — Iris Katz, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 19 Dec. 2020
  • That’s a lot of new blood to get acclimated.
    — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The baby did not calm, did not acclimate.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • This meant starting a new high school and acclimating to a new way of life.
    — Carol Connelly, Post-Tribune, 22 June 2017
  • Your body will need time to acclimate to this new form of exercise.
    — Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Bags of eggs were placed in the water to be acclimated.
    — Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • My body knows that stress and how to adjust to it, how to acclimate itself to it.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
  • Move these plants to a shadier area, or slowly acclimate them to direct sun.
    — Jessica Mattern, Country Living, 24 May 2017
  • After a week of this process, the starts should be acclimated and ready to plant.
    — Ciscoe Morris, The Seattle Times, 26 Apr. 2017
  • One day in Colorado isn’t meant to be enough to acclimate.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 2 Dec. 2025
  • That said, there wasn’t much time to acclimate to the varsity game.
    — Gregg Voss, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Spicy days are here, here’s how to acclimate to heat and get an edge on your competitors.
    — Richard A. Lovett, Outside Online, 25 May 2021
  • These guys stay here for around 2 months acclimating from base camp to camp 4.
    — Fox News, 15 June 2019
  • Most people acclimate within a week or two and prefer it from there.
    — Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The students were part of a summer camp designed to help acclimate them to high school.
    — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The winter months can be hard to get dressed while acclimating to the cold weather.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 6 Dec. 2023
  • And the seven new coaches seemed to acclimate well, save for a few hiccups here and there.
    — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Davis changed teams and wanted time to acclimate to the Lakers.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Free agents must acclimate themselves to new systems.
    — Mike Jones, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • Hansen said the horse was still getting acclimated.
    — Allen Devlin, CBS News, 18 May 2026
  • Now he’s slowly getting acclimated in his first full year of pro.
    — Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Your skin needs time to acclimate, and pushing too hard too fast can cause redness and peeling that sets you back.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Most spend the night at one of the nearby trail camps to help get acclimated to the altitude.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2019
  • The rhinos had a few weeks of crate training to acclimate them to their journey on a cargo plane.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2019
  • As soon as the plant emerges and looks like a hearty plant, repot it into a bigger pot, and acclimate it to full sun.
    — The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2025
  • There is new way of leading for the Chargers as they get acclimated in their new home.
    — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • By the end of the week, the plants should be acclimated and ready to be transplanted outside.
    — Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Apr. 2025

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