vivify

Example Sentences

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Two moving and expansive books about enduring American symbols vivify abstract ideas through surprisingly specific images.

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2018

Words realize nothing; vivify nothing to you, unless you have suffered in your own person the thing which the words try to describe.

From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2018

He will vivify the church by creating a vacuum.

From Slate • Jan. 12, 2017

Williams made a conscious decision to vivify the film with almost completely new thematic ideas.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2015

Her wishes were no less importunate to gaze upon the Alps and Pyrenees, and to vivify and chasten the images collected from books, by comparing them with their real prototypes.

From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden