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Example sentences for: enliven

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

If you fail, you’ve still enjoyed the splendid costumes and makeup, the acrobatics that enliven some regional versions, and the experience of being in a theater surrounded by local people.
The city has attempted to enliven the complex by adding a garden with terraces, pools, and niches where music is performed, but there’s still little reason to visit, except to see the enormous Steaming Kettle on the south side of the plaza above the door of the eponymous coffee shop.
' The Dictionnaire offers many such ingenious coinages but they generally lack the pithiness and sprightliness that enliven such a great deal of scientific and technological terminology in English.
It ill behooves me, excoriated recently as enamored of the “cheap larf,” to criticize Safire's arch puns, which permeate—“enliven” is probably the word his editor would use—his articles, but I find some kinds of humor unsuitable for reading, however they might evoke a chuckle when uttered viva voce . A handful of examples, from the book at hand:
Or, to enliven an otherwise slow afternoon, you might remove the upper third of an eggshell, deposit the raw egg in a small pitcher or juice glass, and scramble it under the steam nozzle of an espresso machine.