How to Use perpetuate in a Sentence

perpetuate

verb
  • He perpetuates the myth that his house is haunted.
  • Fears about an epidemic are being perpetuated by the media.
  • In short, fear of the public charge rule will perpetuate the spread of Covid-19 in cities and towns across the country.
    — Jose F. Figueroa, STAT, 21 Aug. 2020
  • The dam can grow as it is fed by more liquid above it, and the problem perpetuates.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The media was, in a sense, used to perpetuate the fraud that's been alleged.
    — Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The lies that she's helped perpetuate don't have a 9-to-5 schedule.
    — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 26 June 2018
  • But those who perpetuate these evils are betting that the rest of the world will avert their eyes, move on, and forget.
    — Jim Geraghty, National Review, 28 Dec. 2023
  • First, lets look at some of the key reasons that perpetuate a cycle of hunger.
    — Cindy Gordon, Forbes, 7 June 2021
  • Rather, the price of admission to the reform debate has been a pledge to perpetuate it.
    — Charles Lane, Twin Cities, 11 Sep. 2019
  • And the move to Hockey East might have perpetuated that as well.
    — George Sipple, Detroit Free Press, 6 Apr. 2018
  • So is there a way to kind of perpetuate it within a loose framework?
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The prize is to find young judges, in order to perpetuate their rule for as long as possible.
    — Fareed Zakaria, CNN, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The slumps, which used to drive him crazy, which only perpetuated them, will come.
    — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 July 2018
  • Go ahead and keep starting Jakob Poeltl every now and then to help perpetuate the ruse.
    — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 19 Oct. 2019
  • If this can't happen, the least a straight actor can do is try not to perpetuate tired stereotypes.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The man leading that effort in perpetuating, and the most, of course, is DonaldTrump.
    — ABC News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • At this point, Bitcoin seems to be caught up in the self-perpetuating hype cycle of a bubble.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2017
  • Is there a danger of perpetuating a stereotype by adding a book title like this to the world?
    — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The failure of the Minsk accords leaves no doubt as to the risks of perpetuating such falsehoods.
    — Clare Sebastian, CNN, 14 Mar. 2025
  • That’s not progress; that’s just perpetuating the same cycle that keeps women down in the first place.
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2018
  • And don't let nameless sources, even senators and House members, who want to scare you, and the media, who want to perpetuate the line.
    — Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2025
  • And so the great rock 'n' roll cycle perpetuates itself.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2019
  • But Wednesday’s Game 7 can wash all that away – or perpetuate the pain.
    — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 23 May 2018
  • Wait a minute, the journalists go on Twitter and perpetuate myths?
    — Tracy Brown, latimes.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Then the caterpillars drop to the ground, pupate and emerge as flies that lay eggs, perpetuating the cycle.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2018
  • The shame is that some in the political arena perpetuate the idea that all white people are racist.
    — WSJ, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Even worse, studies show that a lack of broadband can perpetuate the cycle of poverty.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The system itself is slow to adapt and too good at perpetuating the status quo.
    — Gov. Butch Otter, idahostatesman, 8 Jan. 2018
  • But in the meantime, shame on Netflix for perpetuating a knowingly false narrative that puts kids in danger.
    — Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The few projects that do apply computer vision to studying works of art seem to exist only to justify funding, which then perpetuates the rhetoric of machine learning’s promise.
    — Sonja Drimmer, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025

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