How to Use animate in a Sentence

animate

1 of 2 adjective

• The lecture was about ancient worship of animate and inanimate objects.
• As such, they should be treated as ‘animate tools,’ instruments rather than ends.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• To the newcomers, the logjam seemed like an animate part of the landscape.
  — Adam M. Sowards, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 May 2023
• This time the town is not empty but crowded with animate memories.
  — Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books, 19 Nov. 2020
• The self is made of memories but can also shape them — an animate sculpture able to rework its own clay.
  — Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026
• The house is dizzyingly animate, like a video game where every object is a glowing grail.
  — Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 2 May 2026
• Drawing animate objects was forbidden, as on the day of judgment, God would ask me to put life in them.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 28 Mar. 2022
• Some quirkier roles include a research scientist to animate avatars in the metaverse and a video game story writer.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2023
• In his work, everything is animate, everything has a soul, everything has a story.
  — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
• Felicia’s brother recognized her body, and it was sent, still animate, to the hospital.
  — Literary Hub, 31 Oct. 2025
• Along the way, though, Heard and company animate enough winning moments to make even the creakier passages feel compelling.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
• Zugunruhe is the itinerant desire of any animate being to keep moving and growing.
  — Big Think, 6 May 2026
• For centuries, the idea of an animate creature made by man and lacking a divine spark or a soul, has been part of the Jewish imagination.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• Both distinguish between an animate direct object and an inanimate one.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
• No matter its age and despite its survival being dependent on machines, just like its mother, the fetus is entirely animate.
  — Lindsey Breitwieser, The Conversation, 1 July 2025
• Writerly strokes may occasionally feel broad, but like animate oil paintings, their effect is rich and reverberant.
  — Joan Frank, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
• Payare’s version was bracingly animate, with clear lines and pure intonation from the orchestra.
  — Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2022
• In his account of an Essex owl evening, all senses seem to merge, and all distinction between animate and inanimate disappears.
  — Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
• Car dashboards with controls that only appear when they're needed, schoolbooks and maps that physically animate concepts.
  — New Atlas, 15 Dec. 2025
• Even if you’re employed in a different field, continue to illustrate, animate, and design to build a robust portfolio.
  — Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
• If the story is slight, the development of the characters through the songs’ lyrics and the performances of them animate and elevate the proceedings.
  — Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025
• The goal is to persuade the public to look at these landmarks with new eyes, almost viewing them as animate characters with feelings and backstories instead of just objects to walk past.
  — Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Oct. 2017
• Ethics begins by recognizing that entities of this Earth are both material and animate.
  — Kathleen Dean Moore, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2021
• The teddy bear cholla cactus, Joshua trees and other flora in the nearby arboretum animate visitors.
  — Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 July 2023
• Even if researchers agreed one day on a testable definition of AGI, the race to build the world’s first animate algorithm might never have a clear winner.
  — Reece Rogers, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2023
• The objects appear startlingly animate, as if bodies and ethnographic specimens are hanging on display.
  — Jane Levere, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
• That early and incisive stance on monopoly power foreshadows the themes that animate Market Crafters.
  — Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
• From lanterns several stories tall and hundreds of feet long to interactive exhibits that animate and breathe fire (in the form of smoke, Lewis clarifies), the festival evokes a deep sense of awe.
  — Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 23 Nov. 2025
• The panel of creators will discuss the role of narrative art in society while tracing humanity’s innate desire to draw, animate and bring to life stories across the millennia.
  — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 11 July 2025
• Royster recalled her animate Catholic teachings and love of Pope Francis’s vision for the church and the prophetic role to hold the government accountable.
  — Olivia Cyrus, Sacbee.com, 7 Aug. 2025

animate

2 of 2 verb

• The writer's humor animates the novel.
• The film's very realistic dinosaurs were animated on computers.
• Talk of the future seemed to animate him.
  — Daniel A. Gross, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2025
• What was the process like animating it?
  — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 15 Jan. 2026
• For me, that is one of the animating aspects of land.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2026
• Was there an animating head-on-the-floor moment?
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026
• There’s a cuteness to how it was animated.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
• This one has a charming clover shape to make your space feel animated, but not childish.
  — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 12 June 2026
• The strange and the extreme, rather than good taste, animate much of fashion and style today.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 July 2022
• Crisp-soft slices of summer squash animated by garlic-chile oil.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• His arms can be animated too – operated by gogs on the rear of his body.
  — Rich Owen, Space.com, 4 Feb. 2026
• His arms, legs and head move, and his face is animated below the visor of his space helmet.
  — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2026
• Woe unto those who fail to entertain, animate or amuse.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2026
• 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
• Some slides are animated, others have text.
  — Jill Duffy, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
• Now her new memoir animates the same land while excavating the past in prose.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2023
• That anything-for-a-laugh ethos is not a flaw in his canon but its animating principle.
  — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 30 Jan. 2026
• And instead of flowers, use large candles and fall fruits like pears to animate the table.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 7 Nov. 2022
• Perhaps the most animated of all is the bald guy with the clipboard who jumps for joy and punches the air.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 13 May 2026
• Where Jain gets animated is the merchant side.
  — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 29 May 2026
• Kelce didn't need long to settle in and was animated while cheering for the Cavs.
  — ABC News, 23 May 2026
• He was given the task of animating Pawbert in the maze.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 29 Nov. 2025
• 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 code covers much more ground, but its animating spirit is clear throughout.
  — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 10 July 2026
• 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
• That bit of the story that once possessed you and once tried animating a dead book can become the spine of a living one.
  — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
• Here is Burton’s debut animated short from five decades ago.
  — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 11 Aug. 2025
• Far less attention has been paid to the ideas that animate the IRA.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2022
• Pharrell Williams is getting animated in a new feature film about his life.
  — William Earl, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
• Leo and Anya talk about the boy’s parents and his, partially animated, read on the world.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 July 2026