Used in a Sentence

hibernate

How to use hibernate in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for hibernate.

Editorial note

<spoilers>I cheated with grep:grep "^[fur][hibernate][claws][latin][brown][omnivores]$" /usr/share/dict/wordsfor yours, bean, chef, diet, dine

Examples8
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

sleep during winter; "Bears must eat a lot of food before they hibernate in their caves"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hibernate gathered in one view.

verb

sleep during winter; "Bears must eat a lot of food before they hibernate in their caves"

verb

be in an inactive or dormant state

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hibernate.

verb

sleep during winter; "Bears must eat a lot of food before they hibernate in their caves"

verb

be in an inactive or dormant state

Example sentences

1

<spoilers>I cheated with grep:grep "^[fur][hibernate][claws][latin][brown][omnivores]$" /usr/share/dict/wordsfor yours, bean, chef, diet, dine

2

After that project I went back to hibernate, and I just felt disappointed, and longed for going back to Django's ORM.

3

* Resuming from hibernate, if the system was hibernated when booted from USB.

4

Sometimes hibernate doesn't work; sometimes wifi; sometimes the boot splash is corrupt; sometimes this, sometimes that.

5

The university was about to hibernate for the summer and would be virtually devoid of social distractions for the few scholars remaining.

6

If you use something like hibernate with any other large library, you end up in Jar dependency hell, where hibernate needs one version of a jar, and something else needs another version.

7

You lose the ability to shutdown, restart, sleep or hibernate your PC from the Gnome user interface - all things that worked before and that normal users expect to be able to do - but you can technically run without it.

8

You can also tweak a setting to automatically erase the FileVault key before suspending the laptop, requiring it to be entered before booting back up: pmset -a destroyfvkeyonstandby 1 I use pmset -a destroyfvkeyonstandby 1 hibernatemode 25 to always hibernate the laptop instead of suspending.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use hibernate in a sentence?

<spoilers>I cheated with grep:grep "^[fur][hibernate][claws][latin][brown][omnivores]$" /usr/share/dict/wordsfor yours, bean, chef, diet, dine

What does hibernate mean?

sleep during winter; "Bears must eat a lot of food before they hibernate in their caves"

What part of speech is hibernate?

hibernate is commonly used as verb.