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
• Sure, Imgur helped memes and visual jokes proliferate across the web.
  — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
• 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
• 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 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 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
• 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
• Online, clues proliferate—about Thiel’s ideas and much else.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2021
• Then, in the late 1940s, the new pesticide DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) began to proliferate, poisoning bald eagles in the process.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2022
• And as those use cases proliferate, the C-suite needs to make sure they are being communicated to the board.
  — Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
• The jokes that proliferated did not seem to be working through a singular grief.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
• By the time another century passed, many of the mosques proliferating across Syria and Egypt had built towers for the call to prayer.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
• If meat is cooled improperly — either cooled too slowly, or if the food isn’t kept cold enough — the spore of the bacteria can grow and proliferate through the food.
  — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2021
• Meanwhile, as the country grapples with how to effectively contain the spread of Covid-19, prisons and jails are a prime spot for the virus to proliferate.
  — Hope Corrigan, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2020
• With their former predators out of the picture, purple sea urchins proliferated.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
• And at a moment where reality TV shows are proliferating, but often with an ugly underbelly, the cable brand is betting that its antidote will resonate with an audience on both linear TV and streaming.
  — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2025