animate
Example Sentences
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You are close to its trunk, experiencing its lofty height and its many branches spreading out like gesturing limbs of an animate creature.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
Such outcomes would not resolve the broader debates that animate these cases.
From Slate • Jan. 14, 2026
He was trying to convey emotion and animate characters.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
They animate the jar’s swelling surface, its bulge already emphasized by wide black bands around the neck and foot.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2025
Both sets of terms, like their Greek originals, included the whole study of nature, animate and inanimate—thus Boyle’s Physiological Essays of 1661 are about natural science as a whole.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing animate
Speak Your Mind: Anim
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