How to Use animate in a Sentence

animate

verb

• The writer's humor animates the novel.
• The film's very realistic dinosaurs were animated on computers.
• The desire to right past wrongs animates many of the characters in our 10 picks for this month.
  — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2023
• The strange and the extreme, rather than good taste, animate much of fashion and style today.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 July 2022
• The back-and-forth between Brooks and James grew animated in the second half.
  — oregonlive, 20 Apr. 2023
• Far less attention has been paid to the ideas that animate the IRA.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2022
• Undersized, animated and topping out the radar gun in the high 80s, Romo was the kid of the group.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2023
• Could Brill have animated the rest of her ski-less day?
  — Vulture, 3 Apr. 2023
• And yes, part of the crossover episode will be animated in a similar style just to keep things fun.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 May 2023
• Plus, the anti-slip bottom ensures that the bed stays in place even during the most animated of naps.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2023
• In 2001, the pair teamed up again for the hybrid live-action and animated children’s sitcom, Lizzie McGuire.
  — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2023
• And instead of flowers, use large candles and fall fruits like pears to animate the table.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 7 Nov. 2022
• And it’s that issue that will likely animate the debate the losing party needs to have when all the votes are counted.
  — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2022
• Many of them expressed excitement for their story to be told in a film, but none were quite as animated as Sadaf.
  — Marie Margolius, Time, 24 Aug. 2023
• But when Barts took office, the district’s growing pains were not what seemed to animate the people who came to school-board meetings.
  — Charles Homans, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• Even when war isn’t the subject, the multisensory shock of war lingers in works that animate the senses.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• An adjacent space exhibits some of the puppets the filmmaker animated, as well as props used to make the videos.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• Now her new memoir animates the same land while excavating the past in prose.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2023
• Here are four themes animating Tuesday’s election: Wisconsin could turn sharply back to the left — or not.
  — Reid J. Epstein, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• Yet the most eyebrow-raising aspect of the movie, in light of Ritchie’s career, is the bone-deep humanity that animates the story.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 Apr. 2023
• The film is directed by Roland Lane and animated by Cinesite.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Jan. 2024
• Fun fact: Each part of Spider-Punk’s body was animated at a different frame rate.
  — Richard Newby, Vulture, 12 June 2023
• He was animated rounding the bases, turning to the Sox dugout between first and second and screaming to exhort his teammate.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
• And there’s various different worlds where Spider-Folk live and some of them are live-action, and some of them are animated, and some of them are who knows what.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2023
• Several computer algorithms for this have been written in the last 20 years, and some of them even animate the process.
  — Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2022
• Crisp-soft slices of summer squash animated by garlic-chile oil.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• There’s only so many ways to punch a man, and Insomniac seems determined to animate them all.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
• In part, this is a convention of the series, since everyone must live to animate another book.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022
• This fourth puppeteer also controls 'the harp', a complex tapestry of strings that animate Little Amal's face, head and eyes.
  — Giovana Gelhoren, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2022
• And there is a singular alchemy to performing music that animates a life in a way no movie ever could.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 22 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024