vivify

Example Sentences

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The McBurneys here did much to vivify the drama, sometimes vaguely, sometimes, as in a Los Angeles film scene, overly specific.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2020

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

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2018

Words realize nothing; vivify nothing to you, unless you have suffered in your own person the thing which the words try to describe.

From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2018

He will vivify the church by creating a vacuum.

From Slate • Jan. 12, 2017

Carefully saved, the product of one well will serve to moisten and vivify a good many acres of grass or tillage.

From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Greeley, Horace