Example Sentences

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Now that those resistant bed bugs have survived and procreated, humans are the ones who must adapt.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2024

The second, more damning letter, reads like a manifesto and notes that "persistence procreated the resistance."

From Fox News • May 21, 2019

Any American who has ever procreated knows what a racket the baby industry is.

From Time • Dec. 1, 2014

Do we look at men who have somehow not procreated as missing out? 

From Slate • Apr. 26, 2012

There is reason for believing that a being procreated at a period of ill-humour, bodily indisposition, or nervous debility, may carry with it, during its whole existence, some small particles of these evils.

From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by Napheys, George H. (George Henry)