How to Use naturalize in a Sentence

naturalize

verb
  • Before you naturalize bulbs in your lawn, fertilize well.
  • Several Asian fish have become naturalized in these lakes.
  • naturalized citizens of the U.S.
  • These daisies naturalize well in the Pacific Northwest.
  • The government refused to naturalize them without documentation.
  • Many things were here naturalized at once.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Squill will naturalize over time in garden beds or even on the lawn.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Still, shoppers say that the paste works well to brighten teeth and naturalize bad breath.
    — Rebecca Norris, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Anemones naturalize well under taller bulbs or in rock gardens.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Over time, the bulbs naturalize and spread throughout the garden without any work on your end.
    — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 27 Apr. 2026
  • These bulbs form clumps that quickly naturalize in woodland gardens or lawns.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The flowers don't last long but are a welcome sight in March, and the bulbs will naturalize and bloom again next year.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The bulbs naturalized through the years, and the field was full of bright yellow single and double-bloom flowers.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Thousands of people are naturalized in these states every year.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Poppies have a tendency to self-sow or naturalize in the garden.
    — Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Use them singly as a specimen plant, clustered in a privacy screen, or naturalized along a wood line.
    — Teresa Woodard, Midwest Living, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Something that is often missed in this debate is that switching to lower case is also a way to naturalize a word.
    — Meghan O'Gieblyn, Wired, 10 Dec. 2020
  • There is actually a much wider range of blooms that will naturalize and give color to your spring garden year after year.
    — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
  • In Bowles’s day, snowdrops had been in England long enough for colonies to naturalize in undisturbed sites.
    — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
  • To naturalize it, therefore, in Europe, would be an immense service to mankind.
    — Scientific American, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Snowdrops readily naturalize and are best planted in drifts along woodland edges or under large trees.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The leaves die back after flowers fade, but summer snowflake comes back every spring, producing more and more blooms as the bulbs naturalize.
    — Marty Ross, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Plants naturalize well and tolerate black walnut trees.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Plants will slowly naturalize in woodland gardens through self-seeding.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 3 May 2026
  • Though not as showy as their hybrid counterparts, species tulips readily naturalize in the garden.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The spicy-scented blooms are good for cutting and naturalizing in lawns, borders, and woodland gardens.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025
  • On a broader scale, all children whose parents weren’t naturalized at the time of their birth would risk losing their citizenship.
    — Hardeep Dhillon, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
  • These spring-blooming bulbs naturalize easily and spread through self-seeding and new offsets that form on the bulbs underground.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Both naturalized citizens and those who are in the country illegally said there is a palpable sense of fear now.
    — Daniella Silva, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Kellen Matwick’s great-grandfather naturalized when his daughter was a toddler.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2026

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