pullulate

Example Sentences

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Those of us in my trade should remember it can generate communities and pullulate with kindness and creativity rather than conspiracy and contempt.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2024

Merriam-Webster, the dictionary that Scripps relies on, says the definition of pullulate includes both “to breed or produce freely” and to “swarm, teem.”

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2022

Willows pullulate with blotchy foliage that recalls her fellow Austrian Gustav Klimt.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2020

What documentaries will look like ten or twenty years from now, when every life, prominent or otherwise, will pullulate with digital traces, one shudders to think.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 1, 2015

The parties too, that already began to pullulate, were not better satisfied with the issue of the Champ de Mai.

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron