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• A well-timed snare drum enlivened the music.From the entry well-timed
• It's more energising, focusing and enlivening to be on the learning edge together.2019, Jacques Chlopczyk, Christine Erlach, Transforming Organizations: Narrative and Story-Based Approaches, page 43. From the entry energising
• For the limp movie, Matthau and Jack Lemmon did little to enliven their respective disagreeability.2008 January 13, Thomas Vinciguerra, “A Pig and a Priss in Their Prime (Time)”, in New York Times. From the entry disagreeability
• And how easily a carousel lined with big plastic Barneyesque dinosaurs can enliven a normally adult space.1998 April 16, Young Chang, “If you build it… they will come”, in The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, volume CII, number 24, Baltimore, Md.…. From the entry Barneyesque
• In other words, English dramatists continued to enliven their work by indulging in parallels, examples, and personatings.1995, Dale B. J. Randall, Winter Fruit: English Drama, 1642-1660, page 377. From the entry personating
• It’s all junk food for the mind, but it sure enlivens the next day’s watercooler discussions.1994 February 21, Bob Curtright, “‘Secrets’ one of guilty pleasures”, in The Wichita Eagle, Wichita, Kan.: The Wichita Eagle and Beacon…. From the entry watercooler
• These faults in a scholar tend to tarten the writing, to enliven the reader.1956, Library Journal, volume 81, page 2257. From the entry tarten
• A mimed sequence might enliven Johnny's visit to the great thereafter; or the battle royal might be painted on a backdrop.2022, Jody Enders, Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries, →ISBN, page 243. From the entry thereafter
• In North America, and increasingly in gardens in southern England, the bizarre Devil’s Fingers, Clathrus archeri, is enlivening our autumns.2006 October 21, Peter Marren, “Day of the fungi”, in The Daily Telegraph, page 15. From the entry devil's fingers
• Kaplan Fund to enliven otherwise pedestrian public housing.2000, Norval White, Elliot Willensky, AIA Guide to New York City, 4th edition, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 370. From the entry cowchild
• Such lines of contact reach out only by awaitingly being out there within the space of others who might enliven them.1996, Samuel B. Mallin, “The Athletes’ Vase”, in Art Line Thought (Contributions to Phenomenology; 21), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic…. From the entry awaitingly
• Here he found a number of engravings some of which were enlivened with a certain amount of flatwash colour, mostly ochre.1949, Alan Houghton Brodrick, Lascaux, page 34. From the entry flatwash
• A concentrated hyperplasma of Energon, drawn via a transdimensional gateway from the endless supply of Energon that enlivened the planet Cybertron itself.2010, Alexander Christian Irvine, Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron, Titan, →ISBN, page 198. From the entry transdimensional
• The initiative for these painted walls comes from the top as an innovatory attempt to enliven urbania set up with municipal subsidies.1993, Jean Baudrillard, “The Order of Simulacra”, in Iain Hamilton Grant, transl., Symbolic Exchange and Death, London; Thousand Oaks; New…. From the entry urbania
• In the Middle Ages preachers had enlivened their sermons with exempla – edifying tales of judgements upon sinners and mercies shown to the pious.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 90. From the entry exemplum
• Directors Rich Moore and Phil Johnston, both veterans of the original Wreck-It Ralph team, also pull off some inventive, enlivening left turns that bring to mind the first film.2018 November 14, Jesse Hassenger, “Disney Goes Viral with an Ambitious, Overstuffed Wreck-It Ralph Sequel”, in The A.V. Club, archived…. From the entry left turn
• This is the palincestuous technique at its most productive, where the prose is expansive rather than reductive, always working to enliven the sensibility of the reader.2017 December 8, Ben Masters, Novel Style: Ethics and Excess in English Fiction since the 1960s, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry palincestuous
• Behind its disappearance lay some notable but unrecorded change in the technique of dairy farming.² The tedium of the livestock inventories is frequently enlivened by glimpses of rural merry-making.2014 [1951], H. P. R. Finberg, “Chapter V: Pastoral husbandry”, in Tavistock Abbey: A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon…. From the entry hogget
• It is clear from archaeological finds that they enjoyed wearing Christian crosses, though they might enliven these with such symbols as the Indian swastika which Buddhists had brought them.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 270. From the entry swastika
• There is no reason to think that the enlivening possible blemish was his hypocritical show of repentance, since there are so many other candidate blemishes to choose among.2008, Annette Baier, Death and Character: Further Reflections on Hume, page 46. From the entry blemish

Meaning of enliven

1. verb To give life or spirit to; to revive or animate.
2. verb To make more lively, cheerful or interesting.

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How do you use enliven in a sentence?

Enliven is used as a verb. For example: “The game was much enlivened when both teams scored within five minutes of each other.”

What is a short sentence with enliven?

“A well-timed snare drum enlivened the music.”

What does enliven mean?

Enliven means to give life or spirit to; to revive or animate.