come to life
Example Sentences
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Bazuin: I wanted this to feel like a storybook come to life — we literally jump inside Andrea’s book with Andrea as our storyteller and reenactor of her own experiences.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
Hearing it will help the dress come to life.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026
It could have come to life as a lesser kind of Ferrari, a diminished derivative of one of the company’s mainline GT cars, with a turbocharged V8 under the hood.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
Software stocks have come to life, with the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF rising in eight of the last 10 sessions and finishing at the top of the range all 10 days.
From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026
It is here that the stilted mannequins of my initial acquaintance begin to yawn and stretch and come to life.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
