How to Use proliferate in a Sentence

proliferate

verb

• Over the past 100 years, those flaws have proliferated as the use of the machine has spread across the world.
  — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2023
• In these places, the plant proliferates and spreads fast.
  — Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2023
• Since the 1970s, dead zones have proliferated across the globe, and include one in the Baltic Sea three times the area of Maryland.
  — Arielle Paul, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
• Sure, Imgur helped memes and visual jokes proliferate across the web.
  — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
• This is not the first time the farms and ranches that now proliferate in the ancient lakebed have been threatened by the phantom lake’s reemergence.
  — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• As hate crimes proliferate, there’s a growing push to shine a light on bigotry.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2022
• A night at the Gilbert Inn stands in stark contrast to a stay in the chain hotels and vacation rentals that proliferate in Seaside.
  — oregonlive, 13 Feb. 2022
• Remixes of the tune have proliferated, and, in the ultimate sign of normie crossover, even made it on the radio.
  — Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2023
• The hope was that the eruption’s output would simmer down, and the fissure would stop proliferating.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
• This has proliferated over the decades, because of the nature of the system itself.
  — Nathan Lewis, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
• So, too, are the school-choice programs that have proliferated at the state level since Trump left office.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 22 July 2023
• Outlets that offer less healthy fare — such as fast-food joints, liquor stores and corner stores — tend to proliferate in those deserts.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 17 May 2022
• Burmese pythons have since proliferated in the state’s muggy warmth.
  — Longreads, 25 Oct. 2024
• The price declines are hitting EVs the hardest as choices proliferate and some consumers balk at the chance to go electric.
  — Nathan Bomey, Axios, 10 July 2024
• Then, in the late 1940s, the new pesticide DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) began to proliferate, poisoning bald eagles in the process.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2022
• And as those use cases proliferate, the C-suite needs to make sure they are being communicated to the board.
  — Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
• By the time another century passed, many of the mosques proliferating across Syria and Egypt had built towers for the call to prayer.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
• Many of the folk legends and tall tales of the last strike that have proliferated online these past weeks have a similar redemptive arc.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 12 May 2023
• While this year hasn’t seen data collection events like the ones that proliferated in 2016, the mission of the End of Term Web Archive remains clear.
  — Leslie Katz, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
• But in the last decade or so, these beneficial little bugs have also been proliferating in the skin care world.
  — Melanie Rud, SELF, 23 Apr. 2024
• Even more disturbing: This trend has proliferated over the last year.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
• In this instance, the same logic would follow: a toy movie performed well, so toy movies will inevitably proliferate.
  — Time, 24 Aug. 2023
• Even as these brick and mortar stores proliferate, some entrepreneurs say the future of the industry lies online.
  — Nik Popli, Time, 9 Nov. 2022
• On the outskirts of Hanoi, new buildings seem to have proliferated like stucco mushrooms.
  — Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2024
• The impulse to text or talk while driving has provided a new danger to the roads, proliferating over the last several decades.
  — Mason Leib, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2024
• This all builds on racist attacks that far-right factions of the party have been making against Harris for weeks now, as the calls for Biden to end his campaign proliferated.
  — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 22 July 2024
• Avoid stacking plates or dishes when wet, as Truong says this is a surefire way to proliferate bacteria.
  — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Sep. 2023
• Will that scare off some investors, or will these sorts of massive software transactions continue to proliferate in the months to come?
  — Kevin Dowd, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• Cancun is home to a dizzying number of hotels, which seem to proliferate every year.
  — Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2021
• Yemeni and Bangladeshi mosques, restaurants and shops proliferated.
  — Allan Lengel, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024