vivify

Example Sentences

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“Like a novelist,” Rafferty wrote, “he finds the human details that vivify the character.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2020

Two moving and expansive books about enduring American symbols vivify abstract ideas through surprisingly specific images.

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2018

He will vivify the church by creating a vacuum.

From Slate • Jan. 12, 2017

Williams made a conscious decision to vivify the film with almost completely new thematic ideas.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2015

With prodigal liberality he dispenses his vast stores of light and heat, which illumine and vivify the worlds circling around him, and upon the constant supply of which all animated beings depend for their existence.

From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel