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How to use harmonize in a sentence

13 example sentences · verb

Harmonize means to be in harmonious agreement. Example: “This explanation of the clan totem harmonizes with the supposed effect of killing one of the totem species.”

Examples of harmonize by meaning

verbTo be in harmonious agreement.

  • This explanation of the clan totem harmonizes with the supposed effect of killing one of the totem species.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 220
  • Mindful of this experience, we have been anxious to facilitate a new use for the building which would harmonize with the residential character of the area.1986 February 15, John Cronin, “More To It Than Homophobia”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 31, page 5

More sentences with harmonize

  • To "reconcile" is not to harmonize but to indifferentiate polar differences, vivaciously balancing the oppositional tensions.2003, Stephen C. Foster, Hanne Bergius, Crisis and the Arts: The History of Dada - Volume 5, page 178. From the entry indifferentiate
  • Quaternionics was in its vectorial aspects antiphysical and unnatural, and did not harmonize with common scalar mathematics.1986, Vladimir Naumovich Zharkov, Interior Structure of the Earth and Planets, page 195. From the entry antiphysical
  • The beplumed and beribboned equipages were designed to harmonize with and en­hance the appearances of the performers.1932, Amelia Earhart, “The First Women Aeronauts”, in The Fun of It, page 201. From the entry beplumed
  • My Lady Chlo’ a negro song harmonized for two soprani and two alti by H.1903, Dominicana: A Magazine of Catholic Literature, volume IV, page 377. From the entry alti
  • At the same time, utility staff had difficulty harmonizing water rates due to council resistance (see Chapter 4).2016, Kathryn Furlong, “ASD and the Goal of Efficiency” (chapter 6), in Leaky Governance: Alternative Service Delivery and the Myth of…. From the entry coolness
  • Yet, many philosophers find combinatorialism attractive because of its ontological parsimony and because it harmonizes with actualism and naturalism.2007 September 20, Luca Moretti, “Brogaard and Salerno on antirealism and the conditional fallacy”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140…. From the entry combinatorialism
  • An attempt to harmonize the Church and the world!1983, Robley Edward Whitson, editor, The Shakers: Two Centuries of Spiritual Reflection, Paulist Press, →ISBN, page 325. From the entry churchal
  • But, more properly, what a work of art possesses is balance, a bringing together and harmonizing of various dynamicisms.1952, William Joseph Grace, How to be Creative with Words, page 160. From the entry dynamicism
  • Fan-audiences' Sinophonic dissonance in real life was harmonized and smoothed over in this virtual enclave by the fans' unwavering love for their idol.2015, Ruby Cheung, New Hong Kong Cinema, →ISBN. From the entry Sinophonic
  • In fact, these specifications, if stable enough and agreed and harmonized across languages, make different physical tagsets compatible and mappable on each other.1999, H. van Halteren, Syntactic Wordclass Tagging, page 154. From the entry tagset
  • Tall, liliate flowers screening the rabbits' pen harmonize with floral patterns in the M ( Memento ) and in the enamel-like design behind it .1972, Giovannino de' Grassi, Millard Meiss, The Visconti Hours, National Library, Florence, page 85. From the entry liliate

Meaning of harmonize

  1. verb To be in harmonious agreement.
  2. verb To play or sing in harmony.
  3. verb To provide parts to.

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Questions about harmonize in a sentence

How do you use harmonize in a sentence?
Harmonize is used as a verb. For example: “This explanation of the clan totem harmonizes with the supposed effect of killing one of the totem species.”
What is a short sentence with harmonize?
“An attempt to harmonize the Church and the world!”
What does harmonize mean?
Harmonize means to be in harmonious agreement.

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