make alive

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The sophomore made her first and only 3-pointer of the game with 57 seconds left to keep her streak of games with a 3-point make alive at 51.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2023

Hours after being discharged from the Navy, I was on a train heading home�a trip I had never expected to make alive.

From Time Magazine Archive

Contrast Christ's acceptance of this confidence in his power with Elijah's 'Am I a God, to kill and to make alive, that they send this man to me to recover him of his leprosy?'

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander

From the sorrow of brief months has grown the joy of long years; the Revolution slew that it might also make alive.

From History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 by Mignet, M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis)

Intellect can destroy but it cannot make alive again,—call in the creative faculties, call in Love, Idea, Imagination, and we have living figures, but we cannot tell whether they are figures which ever lived before.

From Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc by Belloc, Hilaire