exanimate
Example Sentences
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A city agen, But peopled by pale mechanical men, With workhouses filled, and prisons, and marts, And faces that spake exanimate hearts.
From The Irish Penny Journal, No. 1, Vol. 1, July 4, 1840 by Various
At her side the girl gazed curiously at the exanimate form.
From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
But I, exanimate of quick Poesy,— O then, no more but even a soulless corse!
From New Poems by Thompson, Francis
When Laura plays the piano, her adorer stands there, one moment an exanimate statue, the next a disembodied spirit,—while the listening zephyrs murmur more softly in reverence.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin
The frozen lash was soon severed and the two exanimate bodies lifted in eager hands.
From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
