exanimate
Example Sentences
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He gazed at an exanimate Louis, made a few inquiries and a few observations of his own, gave some brief instructions, and departed.
From The Price of Love by Arnold Bennett
So long as I do not exanimate you with my letters, I remain content.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 2nd, 1893 by Various
All along the wan stretch of Cheyne Walk the thin trees stood exanimate, with not a breath of wind to stir the snow that pied their soot-blackened branches.
From A Christmas Garland by Sir Max Beerbohm
In the afternoon the mother and her eldest and youngest, supine and exanimate in the drawing-room, were surprised into expectancy by the sound of the front-door bell before three o'clock.
From Leonora by Arnold Bennett
A city agen, But peopled by pale mechanical men, With workhouses filled, and prisons, and marts, And faces that spake exanimate hearts.
From The Irish Penny Journal, No. 1, Vol. 1, July 4, 1840 by Various
