Example Sentences

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The rain also awakens from their slumbers the frogs that have hibernated and æstivated in the sun-baked beds of dried-up ditches and tanks.

From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Dewar, Douglas

It would seem that even the devil himself must have left their valleys at this time, or have hibernated.

From The Mermaid A Love Tale by Dougall, Lily

Other species which have hibernated may be found about the earliest flowers in spring.

From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Riley, C. V.