How to Use acidify in a Sentence

acidify

verb

• Pollution caused the soil to acidify.
• And a lot of foods are acidified to have a longer shelf life.
  — Naseem S. Miller, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 May 2018
• Sea levels have risen about a foot and oceans have acidified.
  — Brian Kahn, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2017
• One group of those early colonists begins to acidify the starter.
  — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• Many hydrangeas turn blue if the soil is acidified, as many gardeners know.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 28 July 2017
• Adding acidifying elements will do no harm, but to be sure they are needed, run a soil test.
  — Kathy Huber, Houston Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
• Iron and metal nails can acidify and seep into the wood, which can swell with water if not eaten away.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 13 Feb. 2023
• In some locales, acidifying soil is a must, due to high pH water or soil.
  — Marlene Simon, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
• Large conifer trees cast shade, acidify the soil and spread incredibly dense root systems across the landscape.
  — Colin McCrate, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2019
• These products do have some acidifying effect but usually not enough to make a major change in the soil.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 12 May 2018
• Vinegar over time can seriously acidify the soil for all the plants, so a lot depends on how often and how strong.
  — oregonlive.com, 28 June 2019
• Oceans acidified and heated up to the temperature of bathtubs.
  — Rachel E. Gross, Smithsonian, 16 Apr. 2018
• Dozens of others were fed an Abbott fortifier that wasn’t acidified.
  — David Hilzenrath, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026
• Yes, and fish, because fish stocks are plummeting because the ocean is becoming acidified and the climate is warming.
  — Glamour, 12 Nov. 2019
• Acidifying oceans are causing the reef’s skeleton—a key habitat for fish—to break down rapidly, according to new science.
  — National Geographic, 2 May 2016
• For example, as the oceans acidified, creatures like the foraminifera, which constructed their shells of carbon, would have struggled to survive.
  — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
• But even as seas are rising, coral reefs around the world have been suffering from severe bleaching events, and are also weakened further by acidifying oceans.
  — Chris Mooney, Brady Dennis, Philly.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• The ocean is currently acidifying 10 times faster than at any prior time in the last 300 million years.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
• For best results, acidify soil with gypsum prior to planting and apply gypsum twice a year as a topical amendment on the soil surface.
  — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 18 Sep. 2025
• Organic matter will lower the pH (that is, acidify it) and hold moisture and nutrients in sandy soil, or break up claylike soil.
  — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 14 Feb. 2018
• And climate change is warming and acidifying the oceans, threatening to annihilate coral reefs.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 14 Jan. 2020
• As well as warming the planet, carbon dioxide has been acidifying the oceans and decreasing the carbonate ions that many clams and oysters need to build their shells.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Mar. 2024
• As ocean temperatures rise, marine species are moving away from their warming and acidifying habitats to seek colder waters.
  — Zoë Schlanger, Quartz, 25 Sep. 2019
• That’s why the oceans have generally been acidifying, as humanity pumps plumes of the gas into the atmosphere.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2024
• Climate change, which has made the Antarctic one of the fastest changing places on Earth, has inspired studies of shifting ice and acidifying seas.
  — Eli Kintisch, Science | AAAS, 19 Mar. 2020
• Last year our smokestacks and tailpipes puffed out more than 60 trillion pounds of the greenhouse gas, monkeying with the planet’s climate and acidifying the oceans.
  — NBC News, 1 Nov. 2017
• The planet is warming, the oceans are acidifying, the Amazon is burning down, and plastic is snowing on the Arctic.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2019
• Both kinds of nitrogen react to form aerosols that cause smog, damage foliage, and acidify the soil, hindering roots' absorption of nutrients.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 4 Dec. 2019
• Other federal researchers have found that ocean waters off the West Coast are acidifying at twice the rate of global average.
  — oregonlive, 24 Jan. 2020
• In another landscape, volcanoes are erupting, acidifying the ocean and threatening the life within it.
  — Laurel Graeber, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2020