exanimate

Example Sentences

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When Laura plays the piano, her adorer stands there, one moment an exanimate statue, the next a disembodied spirit,—while the listening zephyrs murmur more softly in reverence.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin

He gazed at an exanimate Louis, made a few inquiries and a few observations of his own, gave some brief instructions, and departed.

From The Price of Love by Bennett, Arnold

In the afternoon the mother and her eldest and youngest, supine and exanimate in the drawing-room, were surprised into expectancy by the sound of the front-door bell before three o'clock.

From Leonora by Bennett, Arnold

So long as I do not exanimate you with my letters, I remain content.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 2nd, 1893 by Various

It looked exanimate enough, with its idle wheel looming above the black stream dashed with yellow-white spume, and its cluster of sheds sagging under their white load.

From Ethan Frome by Wharton, Edith