enliven

Mr. Pajak is appealing as the geeky, comic-book-obsessed Sam, while Ms. Bean does her best to enliven with her ferocious belt her rather bland concerned-mother role.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

There’s also a petite variety in a 2-inch pot designed to enliven an office desk without taking up too much space.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

His impact was almost instant, first going past the outside edge of Jaiswal to enliven the crowd.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025

If you’re looking to enliven jarred sauce or some plain tomato puree, you can never go wrong with enriching the latent flavors.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2025

I can send them into others’ work, even enliven some inanimate objects, and once that’s done, the results are brilliant.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

If they threaten to bore, the authors’ jaunty tone enlivens the delivery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird” resounds throughout the Douglas while he enlivens the portrait with impassioned strokes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2025

A great glaze enrobes and enlivens the meat.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025

Seattle Pride enlivens the city once again this June during the 49th annual Pride Month celebrations.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

Fleming, seventy- one, a former mayor of Garden City, a short man who enlivens an unsensational appearance with rather conspicuous neckwear, resisted the assignment.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

The composition is utterly still, devoid of human presence and enlivened only by fluttering harbor flags and the canvas’s scintillating pinpoints of color.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

After spending the last decade writing about his life and childhood, writing about what’s happening right now has clearly enlivened Bono’s storytelling and songwriting abilities.

From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2026

Henry's "very gregarious" nature enlivened the darker days of last winter in the workshop.

From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025

He enlivened concrete, illuminated chain link, made cardboard fluid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

At least Frank Millet still seemed strong and healthy and full of the earthy good humor that had so enlivened the long nights during the fair’s construction.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Not surprisingly, massed strings play a defining role, with well-integrated keyboard parts enlivening the musical landscape.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

In Guillermo Cienfuegos’ enlivening, if at times unsteady, production at A Noise Within, the role is played by Ann Noble, who forgoes the outdated hunchback but adopts a seething, slithering, perversely seductive aura of menace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

That’s to say, where rivers are recognised as alive, enlivening presences in story, art and law, rather than –– as Isaac Newton put it –– ‘brute inanimate matter’.

From Salon ● May 28, 2025

The blend of gallows humor and gruesome fright is enlivening, casting a strange yet fiendishly compelling spell.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

Opposing them were the Plutonists, who noted that volcanoes and earthquakes, among other enlivening agents, continually changed the face of the planet but clearly owed nothing to wayward seas.

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