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

When you speed it up, it flows and boils and bubbles; it actually comes to look alive.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2020

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

Only their eyes look alive as they seethe with more rage and hate.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung