Example Sentences

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“How these depraved ideas are fermenting on social media – it’s spreading like a virus now.”

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2022

“How these depraved ideas are fermenting on social media — it’s spreading like a virus now,” she told ABC on Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2022

It's a bit like a brewery down there, admittedly one you wouldn't want a pint from, where bacteria are fermenting fibre to make a whole load of chemicals.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2019

Ideas, if you like, are fermenting," he said to Pyotr Petrovitch, "and desire for good exists, though it's in a childish form, and honesty you may find, although there are crowds of brigands.

From Crime and Punishment by Garnett, Constance

Great changes are fermenting in the world; and of these changes, especially of those directly affecting our own country, I became actively conscious, shortly after I ascended the Throne.

From Temporal Power by Corelli, Marie