VERB
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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
- His muse pullulated with dizzying speed.
- This was early Tharp, and pullulated with groundbreaking ideas.
- This may sound like odd advice, but it makes sense if you know that "pullulate" traces ultimately to the Latin noun "pullus," which means not only "sprout," but also "young of an animal" and, specifically, Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
- beggars pullulated in the plaza
- a lagoon that pullulated with tropical fish.
- her mind pullulated with worries
- It urges the necessity for linking up with vital forces, but forgets that the real vital force of the German people has hitherto only pullulated under its skull. Selected Essays
- In the course of the argument, the most enormous errors of fact simply pullulated.
- Although he never married, Hooker's flat on the Brighton sea-front pullulated with friends, widows of friends and innumerable godchildren.
- 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
