How to Use coexist in a Sentence

coexist

verb
  • The species coexist in the same environment.
  • Can the two countries peacefully coexist?
  • And there is room for all scale and scope of films to coexist.
    Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2023
  • El Conde is many things, some of which tend not to coexist in movies.
    Vulture, 21 Sep. 2023
  • But the four of us coexist in this film as proper leads.
    Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • Hundreds of native plants listed in the book have evolved to coexist with fire.
    Jeastman, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
  • GaN and silicon will coexist for a while in this space.
    IEEE Spectrum, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The shapes and colors seem to embrace and coexist with one another, like strangers who share the same floor of a building.
    Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
  • After a bloody brawl, Beth and Summer agreed to coexist.
    Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 17 June 2023
  • Like many in Molise, the people of the towns coexist with the wild landscape, often making their living off the land as farmers.
    Asia London Palomba, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The fact remains, however, that both of these things are here to stay and thus need to coexist peacefully.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • There are two things in this world that can very rarely, if ever, coexist: peeing, and boners.
    Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The voice from all of these efforts must coexist succinctly and be genuine.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • As of now, the pair have chalked it up to a drunken moment and continued to awkwardly coexist at work.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2023
  • In this case, emerging technologies will need to be designed to coexist and share the spectrum.
    IEEE Spectrum, 25 July 2023
  • The frigid temperatures, icy landscape and glaciers coexist with some of the most active volcanoes in the world.
    Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
  • For the first time in 10Best history, cars and trucks coexist on the same stage, competing for our annual awards.
    Car and Driver, 28 Dec. 2022
  • How would rough-and-tumble Ellie coexist with cute and cuddly Gorgu?
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2023
  • There’s definitely room for both Waze and Google Maps to coexist.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 8 Dec. 2022
  • This goes against the very idea of a site of cultural exchange where differences are allowed to coexist.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2023
  • For a time, this approach coexisted with the open-air strategy.
    Emily Anthes, New York Times, 17 June 2023
  • Don’t let anyone convince you that class and comfort can’t coexist.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Each of us coexists with a complex gut ecosystem that contains more organisms than there are cells in our body.
    Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2023
  • And the idea of those two worlds coexisting in time is really interesting to me.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The result was the first museum on the National Mall to listen to what nature is telling us about coexisting on the planet in the era of climate change.
    John Muyskens, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
  • This is not only bad for congestion but also bad for the environment and the wildlife that coexists in the few open spaces left in our city.
    Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Bob and Ed find ways to coexist despite the unbridgeable distances between them.
    Daniel Felsenthal, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2024
  • There, Mahito encounters a gray heron, who lures him into a surreal realm where the living and the dead coexist.
    Michaela Zee, Variety, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Finding ways to coexist Conservationists argue that there are ways for man and beast to live side-by-side.
    Kate Brady, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Most of the time, these animals coexist with humans peaceably.
    Hanya Yanagihara Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 10 May 2023

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