pullulating
Example Sentences
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Mangrove doesn't stand – it floats and sweats, pullulating with malign life.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2011
Four years of war had left much of the world ripe for all sorts of epidemics, and many varieties of pneumonia-causing bacteria were pullulating.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fierce old hen sat still, brooding over the English nation, whose pullulating energies were coming swiftly to ripeness and unity under her wings.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other infants show no sign of illness, but are surrounded by such an aura of pullulating bacteria that they are called "cloud babies."
From Time Magazine Archive
Records attesting to his death were pullulating like insect eggs and verifying each other beyond all contendon.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
