How to Use stratification in a Sentence

stratification

noun
  • The cold stratification process can be as little as a few days or as long as four months.
    — Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025
  • For one night, all of the stratification of the music world falls away.
    — ABC News, 3 June 2026
  • The acorns of the live oak do not require a stratification process like some other seeds.
    — Brett McNish, Smithsonian, 15 Feb. 2018
  • This process of moist chilling is known as seed stratification.
    — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The caste system is among the world’s oldest forms of rigid social stratification.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • If anything, the rise of such careers is a product of more rigid class and career stratification.
    — Schuyler Velasco, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 July 2017
  • This will create the right conditions for stratification, which helps the seeds sprout.
    — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 30 Oct. 2024
  • This creates a new kind of stratification.
    — Gerald Bradshaw, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Seed stratification is a process that wakes up dormant seeds through a change in temperature.
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The seed does not need to go through a cold period, called stratification, to germinate.
    — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Meanwhile, racial stratification is, in many places, getting worse.
    — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 26 July 2021
  • Most of us don’t look at our lives that way now, but our comfort and fascination with stratification remains strong.
    — Jay Mathews, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
  • There’s this weird stratification where shows are for either the one percent or the 99 percent.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 6 June 2023
  • Plants can be grown from transplants or seed, which requires cold stratification to germinate.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 18 Nov. 2025
  • This method—called cold stratification—only requires a few weeks to a month in your freezer before the poppy seeds are ready to plant.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Feb. 2025
  • This is called cold stratification and exposes them to many hours of cold temperatures.
    — Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Throughout the book, Kumar keeps his eye on questions of class and social stratification.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Fall is the best time to plant spring-flowering bulbs and native plant seeds that benefit from cold stratification, like milkweed and bee balm.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Many native plant seeds sprout better with cold stratification, which can be accomplished by planting seeds outside in fall.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Many native plant seeds sprout better with cold stratification, which can be accomplished by planting seeds outside in fall.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Nov. 2025
  • One snapshot of the racial stratification in private industry can be seen in the ratio of those at the top compared with those at the bottom.
    — USA Today, 20 Aug. 2020
  • This sort of stratification hasn't happened in the North Atlantic.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Until now, Murillo’s interest in class stratification was not seen to be so central to his work.
    — Walker Mimms, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • What such a case shows is not that old laws have failed to keep pace with new family forms, but how the state can generate new forms of stratification even as older ones fade.
    — The Conversation, oregonlive.com, 16 June 2019
  • The goal is the division of patients into categories of risk—that is, risk stratification.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Keep in mind, though, that the timing must be right; some seeds require cold stratification before germinating.
    — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Some seeds need a cold period called stratification to germinate.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Jan. 2026
  • This is leading to a stratification of the category as brands begin to carve out niches for themselves to secure shelf space.
    — Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The result is fueling a stratification in the clothing sector as more people are buying clothes.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The stratification and accompanying reactions reduces the amount of heat flow out of the core.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2019

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