How to Use propagate in a Sentence

propagate

verb

• The plants failed to propagate.
• He propagated the apple tree by grafting.
• We are discovering new ways to propagate plants without seeds.
• Leave most of the bulbs in the ground to propagate next year.
  — New York Times, 17 May 2021
• The wave that’s propagating through the heart that starts the wave.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
• In fact, the sound waves can propagate halfway across the globe.
  — Taylor L. MacHette, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2020
• The South has many favorite plants from which to take cuttings and propagate new growth.
  — Southern Living, 14 June 2021
• The best time of year to propagate is spring through October.
  — oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2021
• The team is now propagating the grape tissue cells and clearing them of pathogens.
  — Yadid Levy, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2020
• To propagate this herb, simply dig up and separate a few bulbs and stick them in the ground.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2022
• In some cases, this could cause a cascade of errors to propagate through the code.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 16 Nov. 2021
• Use stems that grew the previous year if propagating with this method in the spring.
  — Lynn Coulter, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Mar. 2023
• So the code that is output can fail on tasks or propagate subtle bugs.
  — Jaideep Vaidya, IEEE Spectrum, 11 June 2023
• Choose a vessel to propagate your cutting in, such as an old jar or small vase.
  — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
• In turn, all of their neighbors become red, and so on, propagating through the map.
  — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 24 July 2023
• Their staff will collect seeds of some of the rare plants in the Dusty Preserve and propagate them to be replanted or shared.
  — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2021
• This pick has three glass beakers so your bestie can watch as the roots grow on their propagating houseplants.
  — Jessica Comstock, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 May 2023
• The updates business owners make to their cards will propagate to all these places, not just Maps.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2023
• Follow these steps to propagate your redbud tree: Collect brown, dry pods in the fall and remove the seeds.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2023
• If propagating plants already in your yard, such as birds of paradise, use a small handsaw or sharp knife to cut at the base of the plant.
  — Jasmin Perez, Sunset Magazine, 5 May 2020
• But for cheats and liars, for bullies and tyrants, for those who seek to use my words to propagate deceit and injustice?
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 29 Oct. 2019
• To propagate them in pots, trim your herbs leaving three nodes with foliage on it and three nodes without leaves.
  — Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
• There are a few ways to propagate a new African violet, but the easiest is the water method.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 20 July 2021
• Most of the time, our estimates are accurate enough to keep us alive and propagating the species.
  — Alexandra Ossola, Quartz, 20 Nov. 2019
• It was propagated by people who hate us to describe a movement to get rid of us.
  — Lana Melman, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2024
• The best-case scenario for nursery owners, Dupont said, is to propagate your own, which requires time and space.
  — Jennifer Bolton, Houston Chronicle, 13 Oct. 2020
• In 2007, to propagate his views and his know-how, Wohlleben began writing books, hammering them out at a rate of one or two a year.
  — Robert Moor, The New Yorker, 10 June 2021
• To propagate your Meyer lemon tree, cut off a healthy new stem with no fruit or flowers in the late spring or early summer.
  — Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 May 2022
• Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of Americans sounded the alarm about the oppressive government policies being propagated by British lords.
  — Sally Pipes, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• This dynamic — in which a bee feeds on a flower’s nectar and gathers pollen to feed larvae, and also propagates pollen from flower to flower, enabling plant reproduction — was already well established.
  — quantamagazine.org, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024