Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exanimate
Adjective
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When a lifeless body is found on the beach, the island turns into a trap from which no one can escape.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
25 Mar. 2026 -
After O’Brien’s lifeless body is wheeled out, a name plaque with a new host is put on the door.—
Stephen Battaglio,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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On the morning after the hurricane, these objects revert to their inanimate status quo—but the deviation has been recorded, as fiction.—
Hannah Gold,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Its lifeworld, its temporal and spatial perspective, contrasts with the human, rendering our characters as distant, as inanimate, as the stelae and sculptures that surround them.—
Ben Lerner,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Exanimate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exanimate. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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