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

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

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 Huc, Évariste Régis