ANIMATE in a Sentence

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For ANIMATE, below is one of 324 sentences:
Her sympathy was ours; her smile, her soft voice, the sweet glance of her celestial eyes, were ever there to bless and animate us.

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 Meanings and Examples of ANIMATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
animate
 a.  endowed with life; alive; living; animated
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Promises were still more liberally distributed than money by this active agent; and, in fine, nothing was left undone that could determine the wavering, or animate the disheartened.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
2  His duties would be established, but the wife who was to share, and animate, and reward those duties, might yet be unattainable.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  An account of the concert was immediately claimed; and Anne's recollections of the concert were quite happy enough to animate her features and make her rejoice to talk of it.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
4  Nearly a quarter of an hour had passed, disturbed only by the broken breathing of the sufferer, when moving figures began to animate the line between heath and sky.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
5  It's not appealing weakness like his, but sane strength that will animate the Gopher Prairies.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  Noirtier, seeing Barrois in this pitiable condition, showed by his looks all the various emotions of sorrow and sympathy which can animate the heart of man.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 79. The Lemonade.
8  Her sympathy was ours; her smile, her soft voice, the sweet glance of her celestial eyes, were ever there to bless and animate us.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
9  Could you look, sir, into my heart, you would approve to the full the sentiments which animate me.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  It was all that the girl could do to keep herself in the saddle, yet a slip would mean a terrible death under the hoofs of the unwieldy and terrified animals.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
11  Looking back he saw the old man and the young girl crouching over the blazing fire, while the three animals stood motionless in the back-ground.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
12  There was no living creature near the remains of the fire: animals, man, maiden, all were gone.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
13  Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle White boar, had had a strange dream on the previous night and wished to communicate it to the other animals.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
14  Before long the other animals began to arrive and make themselves comfortable after their different fashions.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
15  Alone among the animals on the farm he never laughed.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
Example Sentence: (114 in 8 pages)
16  The animals are kept in close confinement.
17  Scientists are attempting to compare features of extinct animals with living analogues.
18  People consider foxes as clever but sly animals.
19  The outlines of animals were cut into the rock.
20  Some animals have the power to see in the dark.
21  Chromosomes also determine the sex of animals.
22  Extra doses of the hormone caused the animals' reproductive organs to develop sooner than usual.
23  Without sustenance, the animals will soon die.
24  The use of animals in scientific tests raises difficult ethical questions.
25  Many of these animals are not found anywhere else.
26  Wild animals will not allow other animals to enter their territory.
27  Cold-blooded animals depend on the temperature of their immediate environment.
28  Some animals, such as hedgehogs, exist in a state of suspended animation during the winter.
29  Striped tails are a common feature of many animals.
30  The young animals were bounding about the field.