Sample Sentences forprocreate (auto-selected)
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She seemed receptive, so I launched into my Don't Procreate with Losers speech. . . . (source)Procreate = reproduce (have children)
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He believed that mankind's ability to procreate is so great that there are always more children born than can survive.† (source)
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Instead of being the A/V dweeb about to ask the head cheerleader to the prom, I was the finished-second-place werewolf about to ask the vampire's wife to shack up and procreate.† (source)
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He must have known what an oddity it was for a human and a vampire to procreate, so of course he would have wondered if Vlad was the Pravus.† (source)
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There was a theory afoot at that time, left over from the Puritanism of the previous two centuries and promulgated most forcefully by the British social thinker Thomas Malthus, that in helping the poor or in increasing food production to feed more people we would in fact encourage an increase in the number of the impoverished, who would, among other things, simply procreate faster to take advantage of all that surplus gruel.† (source)
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The Bureau is obsessed with procreation—with passing on genes.† (source)
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Or she stays in the sitting room, knitting away at her endless Angel scarves, turning out more and more yards of intricate and useless wool people: her form of procreation, it must be.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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We would set up camp in the lake breeze, lay down roots for our new lives, and procreate gently amongst ourselves.† (source)
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Apparently I'd inherited it from him and, who knew, maybe Grandpa Decker as well, this violent procreative disgust buzzing loudly in my bloodstream; it felt inborn, wired-in, genetic.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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And if it really was the end of the world, Lilly would be dead, so she'd never know her brother and I were procreating!† (source)
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Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world.† (source)
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From maturity to senility he would increasingly resemble his paternal procreator.† (source)
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Leave procreants alone and shut the door; Cough, or cry hem, if anybody come.† (source)
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O the joy of my soul leaning pois'd on itself, receiving identity through materials and loving them, observing characters and absorbing them, My soul vibrated back to me from them, from sight, hearing, touch, reason, articulation, comparison, memory, and the like, The real life of my senses and flesh transcending my senses and flesh, My body done with materials, my sight done with my material eyes, Proved to me this day beyond cavil that it is not my material eyes which finally see, Nor my material body which finally loves, walks, laughs, shouts, embraces, procreates.† (source)
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For seeing Adam, and Eve, if they had not sinned, had lived on Earth Eternally, in their individuall persons; it is manifest, they should not continually have procreated their kind.† (source)
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Alabama law had outlawed nonprocreative sex, so officials planned to arrest McMillian on sodomy charges.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonprocreative means not and reverses the meaning of procreative. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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