Example Sentences

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On a day in late March when the water temperature was 38 degrees, he pointed from his dock to the Peconic, where 200,000 2-year-old oysters and half a million 1-year-olds were hibernating in submerged cages.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2017

Crystal guessed that they were hibernating in their vehicles.

From Washington Times • Dec. 24, 2016

They were hibernating, E-mailing people in the next cubicle.

From Time Magazine Archive

She felt safe there, as though she were hibernating at the heart of the forest with time suspended and the world frozen—the temporary safety of a quiet way station one must leave in the morning.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

Her teacher said that the lemmings had a chemical similar to antifreeze in their blood, that kept them active all winter when other little mammals were hibernating.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George