liven
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So, I decided to liven the dressing room up and picked on my captain Ryan Shawcross, who - by the way - had been absolutely outstanding that half.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
Fresh faces with breakout performances can liven things up for you, or you can tune in for the comforts of veterans like Kathy Bates or Harrison Ford.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2024
Some people even threw in extra theatrics and party favors to liven up their pitch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024
Muslims liven up their iftar spreads with their own local delicacies.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2024
What traps have the Gamemakers hid den to liven up the slower moments?
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
“This magical place livens conversation as well as appreciation of the countryside and Northern California artists from the past century to the current,” Scarff, who lives in Sonoma, wrote.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
It livens up the whole shebang and really makes the soup, truthfully.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2023
A hailstorm livens up a Venetian fashion show and the world's largest rodents invade a wealthy Argentinian town - some of the stories you may have missed last week.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2021
Next, a little cup of brown sauce livens the stir-fry with oyster sauce, Japanese Worcestershire, sugar and vinegar.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2020
She livens up again like I didn’t just ruin her reveal.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
“It’s been nice to see that in the last year that I’ve been coming here to work on the project, it’s livened back up again,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Eventually that season, the atmosphere livened up with cardboard cutouts in the seats.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2024
The addition of a single word, though admittedly anachronistic, might have livened things up and drawn in a whole new cohort of readers.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2023
Then it became open season on Kraken goalie Philipp Grubauer, and things livened up in a hurry.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2023
Mingo was a stoutly made man of middle stature, with a West Indian complexion that was livened by his red checkered suit tonight.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
The reunion with Yamamoto – who left Soundgarden around 1989 -- for the Rock Hall show went a long way to livening the festivities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025
Cuts to the president, tucked away in his secure box, provided a few jump scares throughout the night, sometimes even livening up the moment.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2025
But it is certainly livening up what had threatened to be a predictable affair.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2024
Waller-Bridge is in high demand, epitomised by her recent engagement livening up the script for the forthcoming as-yet-untitled 25th James Bond film at the request of its star, Daniel Craig.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2019
But there, in the Conqueror’s tower, a constant ebb and flow of cockneys would be livening the frost.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
