propagate
verb (used with object)
to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
was propagating
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past progressiveof propagate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Over a three-hour conversation, Greenblatt explained how the tropes Cannon was propagating had historically been used to discredit Jewish people.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2023
My favorite was propagating urges, the one that focused on motivating yourself to reach long-term goals.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2016
Fourth—The elder sister was propagating what she believed to be the unchangeable and infallible doctrines of Jesus Christ; the younger sister was propagating her own and her father's novel and more or less uncertain opinions.
From The Faith of Our Fathers by James Gibbons
The work had spread to Philadelphia, and, self-planted in Maryland under the preaching of Robert Strawbridge, was propagating itself rapidly in that peculiarly congenial soil.
From A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon
For such views as he was propagating throughout the Protestant church of Germany could not fail to determine speedily the drift of the public sentiment of his day.
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by J. F. (John Fletcher) Hurst
