PROPAGATE in a Sentence

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Example sentences for PROPAGATE, such as:

1. The group launched a website to propagate its ideas.
2. Since bacteria propagate more quickly in unsanitary environments, it is important to keep hospital rooms clean.

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 Meanings and Examples of PROPAGATE
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propagate
 v.  cause something to multiply or breed; cause to extend to broader area or larger number
Classic Sentence:
1  I took with me six cows and two bulls alive, with as many ewes and rams, intending to carry them into my own country, and propagate the breed.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII.
2  The fund was, of course, for the propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their maintenance.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
3  One is this hypothesis: that every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connexion with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence:
1  Since bacteria propagate more quickly in unsanitary environments, it is important to keep hospital rooms clean.
2  The group launched a website to propagate its ideas.