How to Use intensify in a Sentence

intensify

verb

• We could hear the wind howling outside as the storm intensified.
• They intensified their efforts to increase sales.
• Their flushed cheeks are intensified by the pink hue of Rachel’s dress.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
• The video then shows a flash of light, which appears to quickly intensify.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
• As the leagues grow, the debates intensify over which is better.
  — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
• Soon, the ships sailed into a dense fog, which intensified into a storm.
  — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
• And even then, the plants will have to contend with Europe’s intensifying heat waves.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
• In 2020, a record year for hurricanes and the last year of Garner’s study, six storms rapidly intensified that much.
  — TIME, 19 Oct. 2023
• Many said that they’ve been insulted and threatened by strangers on campus as the war has intensified.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
• Its experts declared Peary’s claim valid, and pressure on Cook to present his own proofs intensified.
  — Time, 15 July 2023
• Israel has intensified its bombing of Rafah this week, with five attacks killing 12 people in the area on Tuesday alone.
  — Susannah George, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
• That worry could intensify now that people can keep all their assets and still be on Medi-Cal.
  — Bernard J. Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• As the fight intensifies over a potential third-party bid.
  — ABC News, 16 July 2023
• This woody, grassy fragrance smells like a fresh rainshower on a green field, intensified by the vetiver and perked up by its ginger notes.
  — ELLE, 24 May 2023
• Pink walls with swirls of color at the room's exit intensify the playfulness.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 22 July 2023
• The storm has intensified rapidly from Thursday to Friday.
  — Nigel Chiwaya, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2023
• On Friday, the fighting around the hospital intensified and a strike hit the courtyard outside the hospital.
  — Zoe Magee, ABC News, 13 Nov. 2023
• Power flickered off and on as the rain and wind intensified, and officials said nearly 900 people were in shelters.
  — Grace Garces Bordallo and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023
• As that noise quiets, others intensify: the sounds of bodies shuffling in the bushes and the grunts of physical exertion.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
• As climate change intensifies, researchers expect ice melt to have an even more profound effect on how the planet spins.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
• Loop’s Robert Hampson mixed the record, intensifying its murky allure.
  — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 5 Apr. 2024
• Smoke from the blazes has been lapping into the U.S. since last month but intensified with recent fires in Quebec, where about 100 were considered out of control Wednesday.
  — Jennifer Peltz, ajc, 8 June 2023
• The debate whether the Fed should hike rates again or pause in June has intensified in recent weeks, mostly because of concerns that inflation isn’t cooling fast enough.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN, 24 May 2023
• As social problems have intensified, remote and rural places have not been spared.
  — Jenna Russell, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• The quick shift in light conditions during a total solar eclipse intensifies this phenomenon since our eyes don’t have much time to adjust to the change.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 8 Apr. 2024
• But since the 2006 July War, fears of a serious escalation intensify as the months grow hotter.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2023
• The debate around kids using Drunk Elephant has intensified in recent weeks.
  — Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 10 Jan. 2024
• But scientists see the string of events as a part of a larger, undeniable pattern of extremes that’s intensifying over time.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 15 July 2023
• Idalia, Franklin and Lee all rapidly intensified in water running well above normal.
  — Eric Zerkel, CNN, 12 Sep. 2023
• These storms will intensify and track eastward overnight along the Ohio River, moving into parts of Ohio by early Wednesday morning.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 27 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 7 May 2024