Sample sentences for PROLIFERATE

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Definition

to rapidly grow or increase in number

We must not let them proliferate nuclear arms.

Iran was found in direct violation of the non-proliferation treaty.

(editor's note: 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.)

Thai restaurants have proliferated in this area.
Other signs of the apocalypse proliferate.
Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train
As it grew larger, the spark proliferated, dividing into a cluster of dozens, then hundreds, then thousands of tiny points of light.
Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
Ebola proliferated in their bodies.
Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
He creates, in this way, diverse futures, diverse times which themselves also proliferate and fork.
Jorge Luis Borges -- The Garden of Forking Paths
That table just went on proliferating.
Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man
Confederate monuments, memorials, and imagery proliferated throughout the South during the Civil Rights Era.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
To control the proliferation of paper, Hema insisted he draw in exercise books, which he did, filling page after page.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone

Even his papers had begun to proliferate.
Gish Jen -- Typical American
Moments of valor proliferated.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
Small errors grow heads, fictions proliferate.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
Nuclear had proliferated before it was safe, and there were accidents.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
When cell phones proliferated, you could call your buddies who might have gotten out to the beach before you.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
Now, with the times changing so rapidly, these courses have proliferated over the entire state.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
It was the proliferation of gun control laws, they said.
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner -- Freakonomics

But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
Even before the calamitous outcome of the 1996 premonsoon climbing season, the proliferation of commercial expeditions over the past decade was a touchy issue.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air

In a few years, without effort, simply by luck, he had accumulated one of the largest fortunes in the swamp thanks to the supernatural proliferation of his animals.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude

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