ANIMATION in a Sentence

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324 example sentences for ANIMATION, such as:

1. All Nicholas' animation vanished.
2. Pierre spoke rapidly and with animation.
3. Certain animals were regarded as sacred.
4. The animals are kept in close confinement.
5. Without sustenance, the animals will soon die.

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 Meanings and Examples of ANIMATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
animation
 n.  act of animating, or giving life or spirit; state of being animate or alive.
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Only in Chichikov was a spice of animation visible.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
2  Anna Pavlovna Scherer on the contrary, despite her forty years, overflowed with animation and impulsiveness.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
3  All Nicholas' animation vanished.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
4  Jests fell flat, news was not interesting, and the animation was evidently forced.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II
5  Prince Andrew talked incessantly, arguing now with his father, now with the Swiss tutor Dessalles, and showing an unnatural animation, the cause of which Pierre so well understood.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI
6  The chief pleasure and necessity of such men, when they encounter anyone who shows animation, is to flaunt their own dreary, persistent activity.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V
7  The instant he had done this, all Rostov's animation vanished.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XV
8  She shared with all her heart in the prayer for the spirit of righteousness, for the strengthening of the heart by faith and hope, and its animation by love.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XVIII
9  He had approached the shed full of animation, but on seeing Prince Andrew's face he felt constrained and ill at ease.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXIV
10  His first unconscious feeling of joyful animation produced by the sights and sounds of the battlefield was now replaced by another, especially since he had seen that soldier lying alone in the hayfield.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXI
11  Glowing with the heat and from running, he felt at that moment more strongly than ever the sense of youth, animation, and determination that had come on him when he ran to save the child.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIV
12  Pierre spoke rapidly and with animation.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XV
13  In her face there was none of the ever-glowing animation that had formerly burned there and constituted its charm.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER X
14  Natasha saw by Pierre's animation that his visit had been interesting and that he had much to tell them but dare not say it before the old countess.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XIII
15  She gave some feeble signs of returning animation when they entered, and presently the faint transparency was presented in a sitting attitude.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence: (114 in 8 pages)
16  Certain animals were regarded as sacred.
17  Certain animals can feel vibrations in the sand.
18  Campaigners claim that the animals are not being kept in humane conditions.
19  The animals are kept in close confinement.
20  Scientists are attempting to compare features of extinct animals with living analogues.
21  People consider foxes as clever but sly animals.
22  The outlines of animals were cut into the rock.
23  Some animals have the power to see in the dark.
24  Chromosomes also determine the sex of animals.
25  Extra doses of the hormone caused the animals' reproductive organs to develop sooner than usual.
26  Without sustenance, the animals will soon die.
27  The use of animals in scientific tests raises difficult ethical questions.
28  Many of these animals are not found anywhere else.
29  Wild animals will not allow other animals to enter their territory.
30  Cold-blooded animals depend on the temperature of their immediate environment.