look alive
Example Sentences
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For the uninitiated, makeup is essential on camera not so much to make you look better — though that’s a bonus — but to make you look alive.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022
She didn’t look alive, but neither did she look frightening.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2019
We wanted them to look alive and happy.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2019
Are you okay with all the steps they take to make a dead body look alive?
From The Verge ● Jan. 7, 2018
I turned to the other two and said, ‘Stay here, and look alive, too. I’m going round the sentries.’
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
