enlivened

Example Sentences

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The composition is utterly still, devoid of human presence and enlivened only by fluttering harbor flags and the canvas’s scintillating pinpoints of color.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 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

Literature is enlivened as a result, and so, too, is our appreciation of it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

The closing stages were enlivened by raised tensions rather than any scoreboard jeopardy.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2025

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