reanimate

Example Sentences

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One of the pleasures here is witnessing both actors reanimate the rhythms of a long-ago conversation, their text absent the typical tidiness of a screenplay and instead an interwoven network of inflection, attitude, allusion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

The flowers seemed to reanimate in the candlelight, blooming and dying with each flicker.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2025

A growing list of energy companies are lining up to get similar authorizations so they can cash on pending debt in Venezuela and reanimate oil and gas production along with PDVSA.

From Reuters • Oct. 9, 2023

And they do so by using overlooked materials like those Lovell and Drucker so lovingly reanimate in their documentary, which won a special jury award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival for clarity of vision.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2023

Hazel didn’t think it was so impressive compared to the powers of a guy who could reanimate skeletons and bring people back from the dead, but it felt good to surprise him for a change.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan