exanimate

Example Sentences

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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

But I, exanimate of quick Poesy,— O then, no more but even a soulless corse!

From New Poems by Thompson, Francis

It looked exanimate enough, with its idle wheel looming above the black stream dashed with yellow-white spume, and its cluster of sheds sagging under their white load.

From Ethan Frome by Wharton, Edith

Silence on the bier, While I call God—call God!—so let thy mouth Be heir to those who are now exanimate.

From Sonnets from the Portuguese by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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