How to Use animated in a Sentence

animated

adjective

• She gave an animated description of the project.
• Many movies for kids are animated rather than live-action.
• After dinner, the discussion got more animated.
• Trump seemed rather animated, and was wearing a navy suit and blue tie today.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 9 May 2024
• At the end of the movie, the trio perform the song as themselves — the only non-animated artists featured.
  — Jae-Ha Kim, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025
• Behind them, a yellow and black animated highway appears on the screens.
  — Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
• The animated session felt less like a demonstration and more like a homecoming.
  — Essence, 11 Oct. 2025
• Mike and Julie are experts at that because of their experience in the animated world.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 May 2022
• Most intrusive of all was the scoreboard—four stories high and lit by more than forty thousand bulbs—the first to offer hype videos and animated ads.
  — John Seabrook, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
• The animated series is set to premiere June 29.
  — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 18 May 2026
• But their tunes were mostly vectors for trippy music videos and animated visuals.
  — Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Oct. 2025
• Two long tables in the indoor/outdoor dining room, whose glass doors open to the garden, hint at long, animated family lunches.
  — Zoë Dare Hall, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
• But, because animated films can take a long time to complete, the movie isn’t expected to release until 2029.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2025
• Wichí people inhabit an animated world.
  — María Carri, Artforum, 16 Apr. 2026
• Even with animated animals circling around.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Nov. 2025
• Here, see the real-life The Twits cast side-by-side with their hilariously hideous animated counterparts.
  — Jane Lacroix, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
• That call will depend on your kid's maturity level and tolerance for animated violence.
  — Alex Shoemaker, Parents, 6 Mar. 2026
• The animated series is run by Brad Walsh and Paul Corrigan, who ran the live-action series with me.
  — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 6 Mar. 2026
• Five films and three decades after the original Toy Story redefined animated filmmaking, that streak is over.
  — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
• Those episodes were made with the company's proprietary AI engine, fine-tuned for animated storytelling.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
• The three episodes of this outstanding series that were made available cements the claim that some of the most creative animated storytelling is being generated from anime.
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 July 2026
• Google suggests using the AI tools in Vids to create animated party flyers, business sizzle reels, or a video greeting card.
  — ArsTechnica, 2 Apr. 2026
• The show's only limit is its imagination, as fans have already seen Captain Pike and his crew delight in musical and animated episodes.
  — Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 2 Jan. 2026
• His wife captured the moment on video, including the immediate and animated reactions from his relatives.
  — Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• The Rick and Morty world is one of the most involved animated series ever created and obviously takes up a lot of brain power to pull together.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 6 July 2026
• Riegel agrees, noting that the show doesn’t just settle into the tone of a typical animated series, in Critical Role’s style or otherwise.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
• And Bambi is credited with how future animated films addressed serious topics.
  — Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
• On stage in front of thousands of fans, Guetta combined his animated persona and penchant for oversized drops with Fatehi’s beguiling vocals as the two stars stood side by side.
  — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 22 Dec. 2025
• Like a more crass, animated Seinfeld, Rocko deals with the mundanities and absurdities of daily life.
  — Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 20 June 2026
• Veneziale’s dad is often responsible for picking up items further afield, such as an animated phantom that had been listed on Facebook Marketplace.
  — Laura Kiniry, Popular Science, 22 Oct. 2025