were propagating
- past progressive of propagate.
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
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 Defoe, Daniel
My father accepted these teachings in good faith and gave in his testimony with those who in The Dial and through other agencies were propagating the new philosophy.
From My Friends at Brook Farm by Sears, John Van Der Zee
