bring (something) to life

idiom

: to make (something) very interesting, appealing, or exciting
She brings history to life with her books.

Examples of bring (something) to life in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Margot Fenring Lea Seydoux’s Margot Fenring was one character West was delighted to bring to life. Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024 After promoting from within for an offensive coordinator in 2018 and again in 2021, the Steelers will look elsewhere in search of someone to bring to life an offense that's finished in the bottom third of the NFL in points scored four of the past five years. Will Graves, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024 The network also announced their core cast, a quartet of actors who will bring to life the parents of both Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire (Caitriona Balfe). Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2024 That conversation sparked an effort to bring to life the stories of some of the first Black residents in Oceanside. Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2023 The film, which took a decade to bring to life, is nominated for three Robert Awards, the Danish equivalent to the Oscars. Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 15 Jan. 2024 Kyle Newman on Heroes Feast Flavors of the Multiverse: There’s exquisite photography and food styling, but on top of that there’s photography that captures these places, that isn’t about food, and trying to bring to life places like Shadowfell or the planet Krynn. Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2023 Here a series of miniature dioramas, built to scale and making use of plasma screens and virtual reality displays, will bring to life an unfathomable horror: the murder of 33,771 men, women and children—a huge portion of Kyiv’s remaining Jewish population—at the ravine on September 29 and 30, 1941. Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023 Although the stories of those would-be mice may remain forever unknown, the characters Lionni did bring to life in his books are eternally alive, and their lessons ever fresh. Maya P. Lim, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2023

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“Bring (something) to life.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bring%20%28something%29%20to%20life. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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