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

Its collection of painting and sculpture, entirely European, stops at the threshold of the 20th century--the most recent picture in it is James Ensor's huge, pullulating satire, The Entry of Christ into Brussels, 1888.

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

If Rancho Grande was in the jungle, the jungle was also in Rancho Grande�nesting in its crevices, pattering and pullulating in its chambers, making every wall "a landscape of mold and slime."

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