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
• 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
• Many of the folk legends and tall tales of the last strike that have proliferated online these past weeks have a similar redemptive arc.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 12 May 2023
• Using a second virus, the team delivered two other genes that cause the cells to start proliferating first.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 14 Mar. 2025
• By then, Gates and Allen had accomplished their goal of helping put a computer on every desk and in every home, laying the foundation for the digital technology that has since proliferated into every corner of our lives.
  — Monica Nickelsburg, NPR, 4 Apr. 2025