How to Use synchrony in a Sentence

synchrony

noun
  • What of it, this overlay, this synchrony?
    — Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Lasers gain their power by lining up light waves in synchrony.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • But the newest research suggests that synchrony is more than that—or can be.
    — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
  • Two species, each with its unique grace and power, gather in perfect synchrony.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • These pairs seemed to use synchrony as a jumping-off point for exploring more ideas rather than an end.
    — Emily Falk, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2025
  • One drummer at a trap set and another on congas put their parts in easy synchrony.
    — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 13 May 2017
  • From above, the sharks seemed to be swimming in synchrony in a circular motion.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
  • These swarms of fireflies will flash in synchrony for hours, long after the last visitor has left.
    — Pien Huang, NPR, 26 May 2024
  • The research started as a search for synchrony in earthquake timing.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 30 Oct. 2017
  • When immersed in a glucose solution, the cells beat in synchrony.
    — Lisa Freedman, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2008
  • Both adults began to bounce, sometimes in perfect synchrony, sometimes not.
    — Marta Zaraska, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Even within the same government, the left and right hands are often not working in synchrony.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2024
  • As the sun starts to set, fire dancers surround the pool, moving in hypnotizing synchrony.
    — AL.com, 18 July 2017
  • In perfect synchrony, the girls dipped their blades into the water and propelled their boats forward.
    — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Can an audience create a dazzling sea of light to demonstrate synchrony?
    — Ken House, Courant Community, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Strangers and couples seem to have differing levels of brain synchrony, for instance.
    — New York Times, 25 May 2021
  • To find this precious synchrony, though, autistic people must first find one another.
    — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2020
  • The idea that eye gaze can be used to modulate synchrony is intriguing to other researchers.
    — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Working in synchrony, each elephant grabs its end of the rope in its trunk and pulls, drawing the platform and the treats within reach.
    — Katherine Harmon Courage, Scientific American, 23 May 2017
  • And the greater the degree of synchrony, the study found, the more the audience enjoys the performance.
    — Robert Martone, Scientific American, 2 June 2020
  • And despite the seeming chaos of it all, there’s a sense of synchrony about the crossing that draws in people-watchers from around the world.
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Crickets sing in synchrony; metronomes placed side by side sway into lockstep; some fireflies blink together in the dark.
    — Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, 7 Apr. 2019
  • Under normal circumstances, groups of two or three whales tend to dive in synchrony across tens of square kilometers to hunt for food.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Four people work simultaneously and in synchrony for more than a week.
    — Mackenzie Schmidt, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Once in a while, the wheels click in synchrony and the indifferent universe offers up a rare spectacle.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Douglas fir makes cones sporadically and in synchrony with the shifts in climate over clusters of years.
    — Suzanne Simard, Wired, 7 May 2021
  • The ants also move their six legs in tripod formations, with the front foot on one side moving in synchrony with the back two legs on the other side.
    — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Three men jumped in synchrony into the air, to the ground, into the air again, and down, repeating infinitely.
    — Catherine Lacey, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Every turn took five or six health workers, in full safety garb, working in slow synchrony to avoid dislodging his breathing tube.
    — Lauran Neergaard and Nicole Winfield, Star Tribune, 1 Aug. 2020
  • These cells beat in synchrony, causing the gel to bend and altering its microscopic structure.
    — Matt Warren, Science | AAAS, 28 Mar. 2018

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