revivify

Example Sentences

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Old family stories are hard to revivify, even when they’re good family stories.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2023

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

But Stevenson has also created a new dynamic of collection and dispersal to help revivify memory of the state’s ugly and sordid past.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2018

He declared that twenty new churches, with parishes, should be erected in Glasgow, and he set to work to revivify, remodel and extend the old parochial economy of Scotland.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various