ferment
Example Sentences
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When they ferment sugars, they create tiny outward flowing currents across the wet surface.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
Most modern artists, famously Picasso, left their home turf for some center of creative ferment, finding their voices there.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025
An inquiring fan might want to go to Will Hermes’ 2011 book “Love Goes to Buildings on Fire” for a more nuanced and knowledgeable portrait of the creative ferment that made the Heads possible.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2025
Does the party have the means to ferment a counterculture that is agile, tech-savvy, and fashionable?
From Slate • Jun. 12, 2025
My thoughts were in a ferment; I barely knew what to say.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
