Propagate Sentence Examples

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  • Gather and dry herbs; also propagate these by slips and cuttings.

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  • Begin to propagate greenhouse plants by cuttings; also coleuses by cuttings in heat, potting them off as soon as rooted.

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  • Shift, repot and propagate all plants that are desirable.

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  • Rose was a highchurchman, who to propagate his views in 1832 founded the British Magazine and so came into touch with the leaders of the Oxford movement.

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  • Atterbom and some fellow-students founded about 1810 a society for the deliverance of the country from French pedantry, which with this end carried on a periodical entitled Phosphoros (1810-1813), to propagate the opinions of Schlegel and Schelling.

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  • The Bogomils wore garments like mendicant friars and were known as keen missionaries, travelling far and wide to propagate their doctrines.

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  • Propagate rare and fine plants by cuttings or grafting; increase bouvardias by cuttings, and grow on for winter flowering.

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  • Propagate the different sorts of stone fruit trees by budding on other trees or on prepared stocks.

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  • Propagate herbaceous and other plants that have gone out of flower, by means of cuttings and slips, especially those required for spring bedding; propagate also the various summer bedding plants increased by cuttings.

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  • Propagate all sorts of herbaceous plants by rooted slips or suckers; take off layers of carnations, picotees and pansies.

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  • The reproductive spores are borne in sacs (asci) which form a dense layer on the surface, appearing like a bloom in July; they are scattered by the wind and propagate the disease.

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  • Whatever may have been the origin of the rosary, the Dominicans did much to propagate the devotion.

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  • These are known as the Helxaites or Elchasaites, for they accepted as a revelation the "book of Elchasai," and one Alcibiades of Apamea undertook a mission to Rome about 220 to propagate its teaching.

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  • From first to last Arabian philosophers made no claim to originality; their aim was merely to propagate the truth of Peripa teticism as it had been delivered to them.

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  • In 1856 and 1857 he published two letters to Mr Gladstone on Italian affairs, which created a sensation, while he continued to propagate his views in the Italian press.

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  • Pot hyacinths, tulips and other bulbs for forcing; and propagate half-hardy plants by cuttings.

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  • To say nothing of the Book of Mormon, a considerable number of persons have been found to propagate the doctrine that the English people are descended from the tribes of Israel.

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  • A bed of Agaricus was found by the writer near the river Styx; and upon this hint an attempt has been made to propagate edible fungi in this locality.

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  • There must anciently have existed one or more prose works on Jeremiah and his times, written partly to do honour to the prophet, partly to propagate those views respecting Israel's past with which the name of Jeremiah was associated.

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  • Several circumstances, moreover, tended to propagate disaffection in the Indian army.

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  • La Revelliere Lepeaux seized the opportunity to propagate his religion.

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  • I think it will propagate.

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  • This was the mot d'ordre at Longwood to his companions, who set themselves deliberately to propagate it.

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  • The fact that it is possible to propagate these cells of one animal for years in other animals of the same species, without any loss of their vegetative vitality, suggests that this continued growth is kept up by a growth-stimulating substance present in the proper species of animal; this substance, however, has not the power of transforming the normal tissue into a cancerous one.

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  • Propagate by slips, or by earthing up the old stems, the various pot-herbs.

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  • Propagate plants of which more stock is required either by cuttings or by dividing the roots.

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  • Transplant evergreens in moist weather, about the end of the month; and propagate them by layers and cuttings.

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  • My friends never had occasion to vindicate any one circumstance of my character and conduct; not but that the zealots, we may well suppose, would have been glad to invent and propagate any story to my disadvantage, but they could never find any which they thought would wear the face of probability.

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  • It seemed impossible to admit that an animal which lives for years without losing its gills, and is able to propagate in that state, could be anything but a perfect form.

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  • According to the Basava-purana he early in life renounced his caste and went to reside at Kalyana, then the capital of the Chalukya kingdom, and later on at Sangamesvara near Ratnagiri, where he was initiated into the Vira Saiva faith which he subsequently made it his life's work to propagate.

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  • Whole fields were yellow with buttercups or white with the ghosts of dandelions whose tiny parachutes floated off, seeking fertile fields in which to propagate.

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  • Here the crack continues to propagate, although the stresses in the rod become compressive.

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  • It is a way of handling exceptions without having to propagate flags up through multiple levels of nesting.

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  • Mulch well in autumn If you want to propagate hostas in early autumn or in March as the new growth appears.

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  • Both waves propagate at the same speed and at the right wavelength for baroclinic instability to occur.

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  • Throughout the entire life cycle of a product engineers are frequently required to predict how changes could propagate.

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  • It only takes a small minority of unsecured systems for viruses and SPAM to propagate at a lightning pace.

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  • All those who propagate the holy rosary shall be aided by Me in their necessities.

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  • Here they fell in with the adherents of the new faith, grave, earnest men who professed to reform the abuses which had grown up in the Church; and a sense of equity as much as a love of novelty moved them, on their return home, to propagate wholesome doctrines and clamour for the reformation of their own degenerate prelates.

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  • Articles 11-14 forbid books which outrage God and sacred things, books which propagate magic and superstition, and books which are pernicious to society.

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  • The resentment of the Franciscans, the presence of these and other reactionaries and of Spaniards, the attitude of foreign residents, and the ambitions of leading Californian families united to foment and propagate discontent.

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  • Importantly, rogue seasonality may propagate through a supply network.

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  • All those who propagate the holy Rosary shall be aided by Me in their necessities.

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  • Propagate by seeds, which can be readily procured.

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  • If the seeds don't germinate, you can still have more plants, because jasminum mesnyi is extremely easy to propagate by layering or cuttings.

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  • This is a great way to propagate your wildflower pink, though cuttings can also be taken.

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  • The company encourages gardeners to learn to save their own seeds and continue to propagate these plants that have been enjoyed for generations.

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  • Non-conducting materials-Also called insulators, materials through which electric current does not propagate.

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  • The only thing boys his age think about is propagate, propagate.

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  • No certain remedy is known for the destruction on a commercial scale of the boll weevil, but every effort has been made in the United States to check the advance of the insect, to ascertain and encourage its natural enemies, and to propagate races of cotton which resist its attacks.

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  • That country has its own crude form of Christianity, and is much the same today as when Peter Heiling in the 17th century endeavoured to propagate a purer faith.

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  • Continue to propagate the finer sorts of dahlias, both by cuttings and by division of the roots.

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  • Propagate all sorts of pot-herbs, and attend to the hoeing and thinning of spinach, onions, turnips, carrots, beet, &c. Earth up cabbages, cauliflower, peas, beans and early potatoes.

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  • In recent years attempts have been made by Albanians resident abroad to propagate the national idea among their compatriots at home; committees have been formed at Brussels, Bucharest, Athens and elsewhere, and books, pamphlets and newspapers are surreptitiously sent into the country.

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  • It was not until about 1850 that American Congregationalists began to draw more closely together, and to propagate in the Western states and territories their own distinctive policy.

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