revivify

Example Sentences

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“Living cultures take symbols and then revivify them and give them meaning.”

From New York Times • May 7, 2022

“Cyrano” joins a crop of recent movies that have sought to revivify the musical form: Here, the effort is uneven, if ultimately deeply moving.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2022

The effect of the literal trains and the physical doors is to revivify concepts that are so much a part of popular consciousness that they have become abstract, almost generic.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 6, 2019

If anyone can revivify the Frankenstein story, it’s adventurous, prize-winning British writer Jeanette Winterson.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2019

He began to think over what might be done to revivify the Protestant religion in France.

From The Huguenots in France by Smiles, Samuel