animate

Example Sentences

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You are close to its trunk, experiencing its lofty height and its many branches spreading out like gesturing limbs of an animate creature.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

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

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2026

In 2017, she sold the company, pocketing about $12 million, but her vision continued to animate OneTaste.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

The “richest body of historically specific written evidence” concerning fears of the animate dead in the Middle Ages comes from 12th-century England.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

It was a different sensation; whereas the jungle’s dirt had been warm and inviting, the stable's was cooler and distinctly less animate.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray