Verb (used without object), : Each winter finds us hibernating in Florida.    From Dictionary.com. 

I love to nest in the winter … like a bear hibernating from the snow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nesting « Becca’s Byline] Reference

With the beginning of the winter season, it is time for Darrell and I to begin hibernating, except for necessary trips out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2008 » November] Reference

If he wants to sleep around so much he could reclassified as a hibernating bear, big deal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orange County Register - News Headlines : Top Stories] Reference

Other animals, called hibernating, sleep for months with no other food than their fat, but this, again, can hardly be called hypnotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use] Reference

You may have noticed that my blog is "hibernating" until I can resolve a few personal and schedule issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oh, that Jewish problem] Reference

He had no more reason to believe the story of "hibernating".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Unaga] Reference

Gwyneth Paltrow has been "hibernating" since she turned 30.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

To watch footage of a "hibernating" black bear in Minnesota, go to.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

Price a. k.a Jordan is now "hibernating" at home and avoiding all her pals who fear she may fall into depression.    From Wordnik.com.  [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference

Clemmons: "I've been kind of hibernating and not really wanting to get out very much so tonight was a lot of fun.".    From Wordnik.com.  [KUOW 94.9 Puget Sound Public Radio] Reference

New Delhi, Mar 10: Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow has revealed that she has been 'hibernating' since she turned 30.    From Wordnik.com.  [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference

How do hibernating animals live during the winter?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference

He quotes biologist Lynn Rogers on hibernating bears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Best] Reference

I thought I heard the Deep South hibernating somewhere in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manner of Death]

Asleep inside their snow-covered dens, the bears are hibernating.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2006] Reference

Yesterday was me hibernating as I'm wont to do when I'm depressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [dulligirl Diary Entry] Reference

MENNINGER: Well, they are actually not hibernating during that time.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 21, 2004] Reference

He might have been a sailor, or a scowman, or a hibernating raftsman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference

From their gaiafield emanations, their minds seemed to be hibernating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dreaming Void]

TRAVIS: Well, you know, it's either being here or hibernating at home.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2005] Reference

That it is sort of hibernating until it -- until it's ready to wake up.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2006] Reference

HEMMER: But you have used this phrase, a hibernating regard for the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2005] Reference

Although not a hibernating animal, it lays up a store of food in the autumn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886] Reference

The hibernating animals have much less active organs than the sleeping animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference

But in the book, I prefer to call it a hibernating regard for the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2005] Reference

So you're sort of putting the body into a steady state, almost like hibernating.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2009] Reference

The first weeks in the hospital were spent hibernating, trying to gain strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Brothers]

Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains how hibernating like a bear could actually save a life.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 14, 2009] Reference

It is probable that this figure was based upon an observation of hibernating animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885] Reference

Like digging a hole in the yard and hibernating and not dealing with anything anymore.    From Wordnik.com.  [jimmyxtony Diary Entry] Reference

I prefer to think of it as the way Minnesotans bulk up, like hibernating bears, for the winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Optimism on a Stick] Reference

Visions of isolate bands evolving apart, hibernating like animals, creeping together in the dirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Until We Died] Reference

It's basically a shot of the same life-sustaining chemicals found in those hibernating squirrels.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2009] Reference

There was a shuf fl ing sound inside, like that of some hibernating animal turning in its sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Scriptwriter]

It's like hibernating through winter every year and then waking up because you were hit by a sleigh.    From Wordnik.com.  [super-suzan Diary Entry] Reference

We find Pete, curled up on the couch, looking like a cross between a hibernating chipmunk and Bob Cratchit with chilblains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mad Men Reaches Its Appointment in Samarra: James Wolcott] Reference

I used to think the folks who crawled into dens with hibernating bears had balls (even the female I knew who did this ... hi Carole!).    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference