enlivening

Example Sentences

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A year after “Cosby” became a runaway success, ABC responded with “Growing Pains,” which cast Kirk Cameron as the zany jokester enlivening that show’s Seaver household.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2025

That’s to say, where rivers are recognised as alive, enlivening presences in story, art and law, rather than –– as Isaac Newton put it –– ‘brute inanimate matter’.

From Salon • May 28, 2025

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

“Of course I would rather be with Arthur. An educated man is always an enlivening companion.”

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson