GALVANIZE in a Sentence

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For GALVANIZE, below is one of 14 sentences:
It was a row of one-story shops covered with galvanized iron, or with clapboards painted red and bilious yellow.

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 Meanings and Examples of GALVANIZE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
galvanize
 v.  stimulate by shock; stir up; stimulate to action
Classic Sentence:
1  Ellen had been given this preparation for marriage which any well- brought-up young lady received, and she also had Mammy, who could galvanize the most shiftless negro into energy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  It was a row of one-story shops covered with galvanized iron, or with clapboards painted red and bilious yellow.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  One store-building had a patchy galvanized iron cornice; the building beside it was crowned with battlements and pyramids of brick capped with blocks of red sandstone.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  Her slow turning head stopped, galvanized.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
5  He seemed a mere automaton, galvanized into moving and speaking by the wayward Eustacia's will.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
6  He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
7  It was as though he had received a galvanic shock.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
8  The old man sat up erect, pallid, and like a corpse which rises under the influence of a galvanic shock.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES...
Example Sentence:
1  Perhaps SIV was waiting for some event or announcement to once again galvanize people into marching.
2  The possibility of defeat finally galvanized us into action.
3  The manager's arrival galvanized the workers into activity.
4  Western charities were galvanized by TV pictures of starving people.
5  The street will provide an education, with crucial lessons about environmental stewardship and citizen engagement; youth are leading the way, but many seniors are also galvanized.
6  The unexpected news produced a kind of galvanization of the whole team.