How to Use proliferate in a Sentence

proliferate

verb

• Over the past 100 years, those flaws have proliferated as the use of the machine has spread across the world.
  — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2023
• In these places, the plant proliferates and spreads fast.
  — Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2023
• As the cells grow and proliferate, the team changes the recipe of the liquid nutrients to boost growth.
  — Jenny Splitter / Photography Kelsey McClellan, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2019
• Since the 1970s, dead zones have proliferated across the globe, and include one in the Baltic Sea three times the area of Maryland.
  — Arielle Paul, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
• That was the first of many lies I was forced to carry for him, the weight of which proliferated my trauma.
  — Emanuella Grinberg, CNN, 27 Aug. 2019
• Sure, Imgur helped memes and visual jokes proliferate across the web.
  — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
• But as the number of these housing projects has proliferated, so have the rules.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2019
• This is not the first time the farms and ranches that now proliferate in the ancient lakebed have been threatened by the phantom lake’s reemergence.
  — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• With mass numbers of sea stars dead, the urchins proliferated, chomping their way through the kelp forests.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2019
• As hate crimes proliferate, there’s a growing push to shine a light on bigotry.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2022
• A night at the Gilbert Inn stands in stark contrast to a stay in the chain hotels and vacation rentals that proliferate in Seaside.
  — oregonlive, 13 Feb. 2022
• New research shows the zombies may proliferate in a warmer world.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 19 May 2021
• Remixes of the tune have proliferated, and, in the ultimate sign of normie crossover, even made it on the radio.
  — Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2023
• Just as home theaters proliferated, the smartphone started to bring television to the couch, or the chair, or the bed.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2020
• The ultimate hope is to remove enough purple urchins that the kelp can grow back in small patches and proliferate once again along the coast.
  — NBC News, 30 Nov. 2019
• The hope was that the eruption’s output would simmer down, and the fissure would stop proliferating.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
• This has proliferated over the decades, because of the nature of the system itself.
  — Nathan Lewis, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
• So, too, are the school-choice programs that have proliferated at the state level since Trump left office.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 22 July 2023
• Outlets that offer less healthy fare — such as fast-food joints, liquor stores and corner stores — tend to proliferate in those deserts.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 17 May 2022
• But the fact that the tool has already found a handful of infections at all speaks to how widely the use of spyware has proliferated around the world.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2024
• The modern-day trio was slowed by traffic jams at the shopping malls that now proliferate the historic highway.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2021
• In the time that resale options have been proliferating, so have new clothes.
  — Marc Bain, Quartzy, 16 Aug. 2019
• Brought to Germany for their fur in the 1930s, raccoons have since proliferated across much of Europe.
  — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 29 July 2019
• In some of the more extreme hacks proliferating on YouTube videos, people have gone as far as setting the pouches on fire.
  — Sarah Krouse, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2020
• Burmese pythons have since proliferated in the state’s muggy warmth.
  — Longreads, 25 Oct. 2024
• But fact can be as strange as science fiction and this zany plot is unfolding around the world as sea urchins proliferate.
  — Smithsonian, 21 Sep. 2019
• Over the next few decades, thanks to hip hop culture, streetwear proliferated into the mainstream.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 5 Mar. 2020
• The price declines are hitting EVs the hardest as choices proliferate and some consumers balk at the chance to go electric.
  — Nathan Bomey, Axios, 10 July 2024
• As the growing tide of travelers strains housing, water, and the most Instagrammable hotspots in the region, protests and measures to lessen the effects of overtourism have proliferated.
  — Suman Naishadham, Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2025
• Cowboy hats and Nashville-style dresses proliferated Thursday night in Oakbrook Terrace.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025