How to Use propagate in a Sentence

propagate

verb
Definition of propagatenext
Synonyms for propagatenext
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • It was propagated by people who hate us to describe a movement to get rid of us.
    — Lana Melman, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2024
  • 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
  • When a rock that could have been as wide as the island of Puerto Rico careens into the ocean, a tsunami will propagate around the world.
    — Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The atmosphere is a large fluid, with waves of airflow propagating around the world.
    — Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 June 2023
  • The atmosphere is a large fluid, with waves of airflow propagating around the world.
    — Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 May 2024
  • As long as even a handful still allow bad calls in, those bad calls can propagate to everywhere else in the network.
    — Jonathan Rosenberg, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • The right time to propagate hydrangeas, including 'Berry White,' is from late spring through early fall.
    — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Dec. 2022
  • When Brains Split For patients who have epilepsy, seizures typically start from one side of the brain and then propagate to the other side.
    — Ken Kawada, Popular Mechanics, 29 Nov. 2022
  • This method is, of course, easiest on plants with leaves and nodes that can be propagated by taking a cutting.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The One Who Got Away is a romantic notion that’s been widely propagated by pop culture cinema.
    — Courtney Howard, Variety, 14 June 2024

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