exanimate

Example Sentences

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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

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

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)

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

A city agen, But peopled by pale mechanical men, With workhouses filled, and prisons, and marts, And faces that spake exanimate hearts.

From The Irish Penny Journal, No. 1, Vol. 1, July 4, 1840 by Various