exanimate

Example Sentences

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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

Silence on the bier, While I call God—call God!—So let thy mouth Be heir to those who are now exanimate.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

At her side the girl gazed curiously at the exanimate form.

From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)

But I, exanimate of quick Poesy,— O then, no more but even a soulless corse!

From New Poems by Thompson, Francis

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