propagate
verb (used with object)
to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
were 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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Even if the Texans didn’t notice the cognitive dissonance between reality and the optimism they were propagating, it was striking.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2021
Aid organizations were propagating a “bad image of D.R. Congo throughout the world,” he said, using an abbreviated form of the country’s name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2018
Some of the cells in colonies that were started with colorectal tumor cells were propagating like mad; others were hardly multiplying.
From Reuters ● Dec. 13, 2012
Certain preachers of the religion of the Lord of Heaven, animated, no doubt, by excellent intentions, were propagating a doctrine which, in the end, tended to destroy the authority and power of the Talé-Lama.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Évariste Régis Huc
In the Life, Defoe defends the general from the charge of avarice, the most plausible charge that the journalists were propagating.
From A Short Narrative of the Life and Actions of His Grace John, D. of Marlborogh by Daniel Defoe
