aliveness

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

It was instead a shared endeavor, mutually manufactured in yet another instance of a play letting down its guard to reach new levels of aliveness.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

But, in essence, what audiences relate to the most is this loose sense of aliveness, that things can go wrong or be brilliant or beautiful.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

As Dragonwagon writes in the new edition, “A cookbook — if people actually make its recipes — has transcendent, earthy aliveness, a sacramental connective tissue that crisscrosses linear time as, I believe, nothing else does.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2023

“What I think is so special about disco balls is they kind of have this aliveness to them that you can’t really recreate in any other way,” they said.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2022

All around you things are purely living, and you among them, and the aliveness makes you tremble.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien