Example sentences for: animate

How can you use “animate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In spite of the immensely powerful tools of modern biotechnology, scientists still cannot make matter animate in the laboratory.

  • Armed with billions of cells, elaborate circuitry, and a seemingly animate anatomy, capable of growing as it learns, the brain is a marvelously enigmatic organ.

  • If you have an interpreter at hand, you’ll understand why some scenes animate the audience and others don’t.

  • The same could be said of the exhibition as a whole, and its splendid catalog: They animate a process that, 80 years later, still seems new.

  • In a recent letter in Nature, “Lexical organization of nouns and verbs in the brain,” Alfonso Caramazza and Argye E. Hills reported on patients' relative ability to control specific semantic categories, such as abstract vs. concrete words, animate vs. inanimate, etc., based on the dysfunction of a part of the brain.


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