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Example sentences for "propagate"

Lexicographically close words:
propaganda; propagandism; propagandist; propagandistic; propagandists; propagated; propagates; propagating; propagation; propagative
  1. Opportunist Movements and their Anticonstitutional Effects The field which the Nationalists invaded to propagate their doctrines was already occupied.

  2. Manchoukuo bases little of her official ideology on such a dangerous outlook and prefers to propagate a Confucianist traditionalism in so far as she propagates anything.

  3. The great women of the islands, when converted themselves, endeavored to propagate the truths of the Gospel; and amongst them, one of the most justly celebrated Christians was Kapiolani.

  4. At the latter end of the seventeenth century, they obtained the name of Marianne from the Queen of Spain, who sent missionaries thither to propagate the Christian religion.

  5. A third resemblance arises from there being some animals which propagate like plants, and by the same method.

  6. The social nature of man impels him to propagate his principles, as much as physical impulses urge him to propagate his kind.

  7. Deserting Mazzini, Gioberti espoused the cause of King Charles Albert, and founded a society to propagate the idea of a federated Italy with the King of Piedmont at its head.

  8. In the tenth year Ali was sent into Yaman to propagate the Mohammedan faith there, and as it is said, converted the whole tribe of Hamdân in one day.

  9. As a Liberal, I concede to the Christian cuckoo the right to propagate her species; but I protest against her laying her eggs in the secular nest and having them hatched by the state.

  10. It may be urged by some that the sanguinary war maintained by the revolutionists can be held as a proof of their un-Christian character, and that they are endeavouring to propagate their faith by the sword.

  11. Can the British nation sympathize with the rebels to one and not with those to the other, particularly when the latter are endeavouring to propagate the Christian faith?

  12. A fifth motive to quicken us to this duty, may be even the practice of the Antichristian state and kingdom; popery hath been dexterous to propagate and spread itself by this means.

  13. Mirrors could reflect and increase its power like the rays of light, and sound could propagate and increase it.

  14. The Dutch are now endeavouring to propagate this valuable plant in Java, and for that purpose employ cultivators, who have emigrated from Fokien.

  15. The charms and the power of youth and music were not neglected as auxiliaries to propagate the fashionable doctrine.

  16. It has, however, been clearly demonstrated, that inoculation of rabid saliva does not propagate the distemper.

  17. Ambition degenerated into ferocity, scepticism led to impiety, and even apparent virtue sought to propagate the doctrines of good, by assuming the "goodly outside" of vice.

  18. Strenuous efforts to propagate the Soviet doctrine and the war against capitalism in other countries have taken place, without working a revolution similar to that in Russia.

  19. The whole history of their conquest shows a continual strife to propagate their religious doctrine.

  20. Apparently they took the Mohammedan religion as embodied in the Koran literally and fanatically, and, considering nothing beyond these, sought to propagate the doctrine through conquest by sword.

  21. It is perfectly evident that in an age like this we cannot propagate Christianity under glass.

  22. These people are not in the least affected by orthodox temperance efforts; they continue to propagate drunkenness, and thereby nullify the good results of temperance energy.

  23. What hunger, what cold, what torment and death have some Jesuitic and other antichristian missionaries undergone, to propagate the most ruining delusions of hell; all under the pretence of earnestness to gain sinners to Christ and his church.

  24. This need not, however, occasion any great surprise: the spirit of the world savoreth not the things that be of God, and the enemies of the truth naturally wish to have full scope to propagate their delusions.

  25. This is one of those plausible imputations which enemies propagate on the evidence of their own suspicions, and which therefore require to be substantiated by unexceptionable testimony.

  26. In the species of the hen and pigeon, a great number of races have been very lately produced, all of which propagate their kinds.

  27. Perhaps you will begin to think Swift's sages, who only amused themselves with endeavouring to propagate sheep without wool, not so contemptible.

  28. It is well known that a great many animals and birds refuse to, or cannot, propagate their kind when in a state of confinement.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "propagate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bear; beg; beget; breed; broadcast; circular; copulate; cultivate; diffuse; dispense; disperse; disseminate; distribute; diverge; engender; father; further; generate; get; grow; issue; mother; multiply; overspread; post; procreate; produce; propagate; publish; radiate; raise; rear; reproduce; retail; scatter; sire; sow; splay; spread; strew; utter