animate

Example Sentences

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In “Grass Breathing,” Mendieta, hidden beneath squares of sod, uses her own respiration to animate the earth above.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

Such outcomes would not resolve the broader debates that animate these cases.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2026

Your avatar buddy is housed in a little jar with an LED projection system to display and animate it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

They animate the jar’s swelling surface, its bulge already emphasized by wide black bands around the neck and foot.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2025

Some tiny bag of chemicals twitched and became animate.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson