pullulate
Example Sentences
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Stretched across panoramic wide-screen, the eye-popping film portrays 1920 Vienna as a pullulating Old World metropolis, its buildings reeling at canted angles, its streets hosting grotesque violence.
From New York Times
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
Willows pullulate with blotchy foliage that recalls her fellow Austrian Gustav Klimt.
From New York Times
The artist collaborated with Japanese scientists who can translate M.R.I. scans into pictures, and the resultant, restless impressions of brain activity mutate and pullulate from frame to frame.
From New York Times
Ms. Rousseff is not formally charged with corruption and her supporters like to point out that Brazilian politics are pullulating with corruption scandals that hit all parties.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
