Example Sentences

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In Ferguson’s case, the landscape designer is propagating flowers on a vacant lot offered by a friend, screenwriter Dalan Musson, whom she met while volunteering at the North Central Animal Shelter in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2024

The modified beam then travels through the second section of the waveguide, so that a beam with modulated properties is propagating.

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2024

The grand tally of U.S. wells that have been abandoned or that do not have an owner is propagating like an algae bloom.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2023

This is sited to the north and east of Halley, and is propagating away from the base.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2023

This and others native to the Rio Negro Mr. Rand is propagating on a large scale in shreds of bamboo, especially a white Cattleya superba which he himself discovered.

From About Orchids A Chat by Boyle, Frederick