vivify
Example Sentences
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“Like a novelist,” Rafferty wrote, “he finds the human details that vivify the character.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2020
The McBurneys here did much to vivify the drama, sometimes vaguely, sometimes, as in a Los Angeles film scene, overly specific.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2020
Two moving and expansive books about enduring American symbols vivify abstract ideas through surprisingly specific images.
From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2018
He will vivify the church by creating a vacuum.
From Slate • Jan. 12, 2017
Throughout this period Admiral Dewey reports various cordial conferences with Aguinaldo, though he is not so literary as to vivify his accounts with allusions to the weather.
From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by Blount, James H.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
