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be teeming, be abuzz
The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen
her mind pullulated with worries
The garden was swarming with bees -
produce buds, branches, or germinate
the potatoes sprouted -
move in large numbers
people were pouring out of the theater
beggars pullulated in the plaza - breed freely and abundantly
- become abundant; increase rapidly
How To Use pullulate In A Sentence
- Therefore spodizators, gesinins, memains, and parazons, be not culpable of dilatory protractions in the apposition of every re-roborating species, but rather let them pullulate and superabound on the tables. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
- Squalid babies, with wan, pathetic faces, pullulated on the doorsteps; they showed from behind dingy windows at the breasts of haggard women. Without Prejudice
- But no! With frantic passion Nietzsche charged: "The Reformation, a duplication {731} of the medieval spirit at a time when this spirit no longer had a good conscience, pullulated sects, and superstitions like the witchcraft craze. The Age of the Reformation
- - be full of; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots" swarm - move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" crowd - to gather together in large numbers; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah Word of the Day
- Multiple papillomata involve no danger to life other than that of easily obviated asphyxia, and it is moreover a benign self-limited disease that repullulates on the surface. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
- And when we read the tabloid stories of the inevitable monsters from our group who drowned in drink and pullulated in porn, our respect for ourselves, a basic element of human dignity, would be under siege. On Line Opinion - Latest Articles
- That is, the pre-GAP square where bookstores pullulated and I could afford to see the premiere of some new play, such as a Philip Glass opera, The Fall of the House of Usher. Tale of a Venezuelan in Boston
- It's heartbreaking sometimes to read the accounts of the early explorers and realize how the eastern forest once teemed and pullulated with wildlife in a way we can scarcely imagine now. Hoarded Ordinaries
- - a swarm of insects that attack plants; "a plague of grasshoppers" swarm - be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries Word of the Day
- His muse pullulated with dizzying speed.