enliven
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Danny Palumbo recommends the best snacks to enliven your cookout.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
Three other artists, now well-known, enliven these early years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 17, 2026
It’s a neat conceptual challenge to visually enliven a famously blissed-out album like this onstage, and Air did it with exquisite panache on Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025
His impact was almost instant, first going past the outside edge of Jaiswal to enliven the crowd.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025
But a skilled writer can enliven and sometimes electrify her prose with the judicious insertion of a surprising word.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
The Washingtons, records show, added wallpaper throughout the house in 1797—and its reappearance enlivens a house that had looked dull.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
A great glaze enrobes and enlivens the meat.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025
Casting is, unambiguously, an art form, one that enlivens the page and fleshes out drama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
Seattle Pride enlivens the city once again this June during the 49th annual Pride Month celebrations.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
Fleming, seventy- one, a former mayor of Garden City, a short man who enlivens an unsensational appearance with rather conspicuous neckwear, resisted the assignment.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
After spending the last decade writing about his life and childhood, writing about what’s happening right now has clearly enlivened Bono’s storytelling and songwriting abilities.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2026
Johnson’s narrative is enlivened by its colorful cast, particularly the exuberant, and possibly fraudulent, Conte Querini of Venice, and the imperious and pretentious playwright Dorothy Merlin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
Henry's "very gregarious" nature enlivened the darker days of last winter in the workshop.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025
He enlivened concrete, illuminated chain link, made cardboard fluid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
How much her brisk, graceful bustling had enlivened his idle days!
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
In my fall preview item for this show, I wrote that the “production is all but guaranteed to be more enlivening than an evening spent surfing Netflix.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Not surprisingly, massed strings play a defining role, with well-integrated keyboard parts enlivening the musical landscape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
In some other realm, the football career and its showbiz afterlife, pitching rental cars and enlivening spoofery, would have warranted the plain-old Great American treatment.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
Allyson Kaye Daniel has enlivening comic moments as Addaperle, playing the Good Witch of the North as a community auntie who always knows what’s what.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
Opposing them were the Plutonists, who noted that volcanoes and earthquakes, among other enlivening agents, continually changed the face of the planet but clearly owed nothing to wayward seas.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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