enliven

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

There’s also a petite variety in a 2-inch pot designed to enliven an office desk without taking up too much space.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

Herzog said he wanted to tackle the Breuer in part because he believes architects should look to revamp existing historic buildings and enliven what already exists instead of striving to only create from scratch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

I can send them into others’ work, even enliven some inanimate objects, and once that’s done, the results are brilliant.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

If they threaten to bore, the authors’ jaunty tone enlivens the delivery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

A great glaze enrobes and enlivens the meat.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025

They are the weeds that sprout in sidewalk cracks, the elaborate graffiti that enlivens the drab wall of an abandoned building.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2024

Sharp stylization enlivens a distinctly feminist perspective throughout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 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

“For the Dead Remember” sometimes gets bogged down in excessive detail, but the book is enlivened by eccentric characters, amusing anecdotes and bizarre through lines, such as the declining status of James’s teeth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Mercedes' George Russell held off a late challenge from Red Bull's Max Verstappen to win an Azerbaijan Grand Prix enlivened late on by two safety car periods.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

They depict a natural world often enlivened with the dramatic splendor of rushing falls, flowing lava, and vivid arrays of sky, clouds and storms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Although Glaser enlivened Sunday’s proceedings, Globes commentators Kevin Frazier and Variety’s red carpet correspondent Marc Malkin were terrible additions.

From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2026

At this, there was an outburst of gaiety from all the assembled; and I was sensible that the delight of the evening enlivened my spirits as well as all of those seated around me.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

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

She touted her efforts to forge change, and smiled as she talked about enlivening downtown with night markets and music festivals on the waterfront.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 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