enliven

Danny Palumbo recommends the best snacks to enliven your cookout.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

Dark pigment pushed into claw-like scratches feels like a peek into a figure’s spiritual void; fleshy hues bring out nicks and lines that enliven characters’ faces—some pained, others contemplative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

The ride’s namesake song plays give and take with “Jingle Bells” and seasonal adornments adorably enliven the leisurely boat ride with even more cheer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025

His impact was almost instant, first going past the outside edge of Jaiswal to enliven the crowd.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025

Aware of the architects’ increasing emphasis on size, Olmsted shortly before the meeting had written to Burnham suggesting ways to enliven the grounds.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

The clash of perspective enlivens the drama by clarifying the thematic questioning holding “Cordially” together — how can human beings process the scale of destruction around them without succumbing to feelings of futility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025

Seattle Pride enlivens the city once again this June during the 49th annual Pride Month celebrations.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 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

Those concepts interlace in his ossuary, enlivened when he plays his tenderly kept records, remnants of human joy all but lost to a Rage pestilence.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026

Johnson’s narrative is enlivened by its colorful cast, particularly the exuberant, and possibly fraudulent, Conte Querini of Venice, and the imperious and pretentious playwright Dorothy Merlin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

He enlivened concrete, illuminated chain link, made cardboard fluid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

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

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2025

No coaxing, no sugar, no lullaby, no story, even the light was put out and only the red glow of the fire enlivened the ‘big dark’ which Demi regarded with curiosity rather than fear.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

The crowds were a welcome boon for the bartenders, enlivening what is usually a lull at Joxer Daly’s, which is away from the beaches and beer gardens where customers gather in the summer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 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

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

The blend of gallows humor and gruesome fright is enlivening, casting a strange yet fiendishly compelling spell.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 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