How to Use propagation in a Sentence

propagation

noun

• One way to share your love of plants with friends, or just have more plants in your home, is plant propagation.
  — Niema Jordan, Essence, 22 Mar. 2021
• Of course, seeds are not the only method of propagation.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 12 July 2023
• The latter is a propagation of a surface fracture in the ice clean through to the bottom of the ice sheet as the crack fills with water.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 26 Aug. 2020
• Once sown, the seed trays are stacked onto carts and left in a dark section of the same tunnel for propagation.
  — Kate Peters, Popular Mechanics, 12 Nov. 2020
• This propagation gave them a way to create a good code.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Nov. 2021
• But even the best arguments need the means for their propagation.
  — Peter J. Travers, National Review, 8 Dec. 2020
• Misting can also be a great way to help clean dust off leaves and aid in plant propagation.
  — Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 1 Sep. 2022
• The author makes use of the fact that oxygen favors the growth of true yeast but hinders the propagation of the other ferments.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
• The plants in the home came from the propagation wall Jo conceived for Magnolia Market at the Silos.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 21 Nov. 2022
• Take part in a hands-on workshop on young grapevine pruning and propagation.
  — oregonlive, 10 Feb. 2023
• The crop has yet to get the green light for commercial propagation—a necessary step for farmers to plant it in their fields.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2020
• These memes all use us for their propagation while harming us.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2020
• The app comes fully equipped with lessons on propagation, soil types, water, lighting, and more.
  — Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, 19 Sep. 2018
• This is a more expensive propagation process, but yields plants cloned from the parent.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 16 Feb. 2018
• As seedlings grow, only some are considered good enough to move on to the next step: clonal propagation.
  — Matt Benoit, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2022
• Plant propagation was going to be our next column, but as Dennis said, the virus had other plans for us.
  — oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2021
• Reid will talk about using cuttings for propagation and why this method is better than seeds.
  — Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• The propagation of patient-to-patient Web sites is allowing consumers to take stock and take charge.
  — Andrew Weil, Md, WIRED, 1 Apr. 2001
• But there is an easier, cheaper way to grow new houseplants: propagation, or the process of growing a new plant from a piece of a mature one.
  — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
• Woodland Plantation, in West Pointe à la Hache, was built in the 1830s and was for decades dedicated to the propagation of sugar cane and the trading of slaves.
  — Jennifer Moses, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
• Without a lot of pomp and fuss, this guidebook walks you through the propagation, harvesting and preserving of herbs.
  — Dominique Browning, New York Times, 1 June 2016
• Here’s the inside scoop on plant propagation from Flora Grubb and her nursery’s head grower, Gregg Opgenorth.
  — Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 24 Feb. 2022
• So, of course people love to share their propagation joy on social media.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Dec. 2021
• The researchers’ model takes into account the propagation of the shock waves and other factors.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 29 June 2022
• In 2018, two acres of Rim to Rim’s native plant propagation center along the Colorado River were planted with biocrust species and watered for over a year.
  — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Dec. 2022
• The benefit of these masks is that the cloud deflection and impact against the mask dissipate energy and thus can reduce the range of propagation of the cloud.
  — USA Today, 3 Apr. 2020
• On her blog, Martha Stewart explains that propagation is the process of growing new plants from clippings or other plants.
  — Evan Hecht, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2022
• April's now the proud mama of five giraffe babies and will be retired from her zoo's propagation program.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 7 June 2019
• The Parker probe saw the entire thing—from the CME's generation, to its emission from the sun's surface (or photosphere), to its propagation in the space between our star and our planet.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
• As scientists learned fairly quickly, masking and mobility restrictions were effective against the propagation of the virus.
  — Abhijit V. Banerjee, Foreign Affairs, 21 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024