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
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
The crisp air, the sunlight, the movement on the river, and the moving river itself,—the road that ran with us, seeming to sympathise with us, animate us, and encourage us on,—freshened me with new hope.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
