How to Use synchronize in a Sentence

synchronize

verb
  • The sound and picture have to synchronize perfectly.
  • The dancers practiced until they synchronized their movements.
  • That will cause the two ends of the wormhole to no longer be synchronized in time.
    — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2023
  • In simpler terms, their brain waves and yours can get synchronized.
    — Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Which means that the way that the music is synchronized with the film can be changed from night to night.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Cook added that the lights can be programmed to flash or be synchronized to music.
    — Pete Grathoff, kansascity, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Sing along to sounds of the season synchronized to each display.
    — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 22 Dec. 2017
  • And that is to synchronize body movements to a rhythmic beat in music.
    — Janna Levin, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2024
  • There are even light features underneath the boat that synchronize to the show.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The changing light is synchronized to the music’s beat and vary with tempo changes.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The short video played against an upbeat sound that synchronized with the dog tilting her head to show off her new hairdo.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The shoes can synchronize to each other and are powered by battery packs in the insoles.
    — Tim Newcomb, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The constant sharing keeps the blockchain synchronized across all nodes worldwide.
    — Andrey Sergeenkov, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The timing chain is a metal chain that keeps the engine synchronized from top to bottom.
    — Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • And there’s a way to synchronize the camera angles to evaluate each play.
    — Kansas City Star, 14 May 2026
  • This is because their nervous systems synchronize and the sense of looming threat drops.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The group is figuring out how to fold in step and pom, where dancers wave pompons while synchronizing their moves.
    — Maria Cramer, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The leap day is an extra day added every four years to the calendar to synchronize it with the solar year.
    — Mallika Kallingal, CNN, 1 Mar. 2020
  • Humans tend to synchronize with each other, which means that when someone smiles at you, you’ll be inclined to smile back.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The researchers also found that spiders needed to synchronize to sense smaller prey items in the web.
    — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Circadian rhythm in the brain is synchronized to the outside world by light and darkness.
    — Satchin Panda, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The show will be elevated with music synchronized to the beat of the fireworks.
    — Cole Premo, CBS News, 29 June 2026
  • For example, schools would have to go to four-day weeks to synchronize the schedules of parents and children.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2019
  • The tradesmen and merchants in town heard the monastery bells ring out eight times a day and began to synchronize their daily tasks to their rhythm.
    — Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
  • The mating calls of male Panama cross-banded tree frogs are synchronized to confuse bats and midges.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 17 July 2024
  • The mating calls of male Panama cross-banded tree frogs are synchronized to confuse bats and midges.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The mating calls of male Panama cross-banded tree frogs are synchronized to confuse bats and midges.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The mating calls of male Panama cross-banded tree frogs are synchronized to confuse bats and midges.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • How was everyone synchronizing their clocks a hundred years ago?
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
  • The opening blast, from 2013, is even synchronized to the music.
    — Time, Time, 14 Sep. 2017

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