look alive

Example Sentences

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But the looks were on a dummy M3gan, and she didn’t look alive.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2023

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

We wanted them to look alive and happy.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2019

And throughout, Hughes keeps finding ways to make their bland suburban school look alive.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2017

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