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"Liven" in a Sentence (15 examples)
A resident uses pot lids to play cymbals as she takes part in a music flash mob called "Look out from the window, Rome mine!" The event sought to liven up the city's silence during the coronavirus lockdown.
Emojis, those cute, vivid images that liven up emails and texts, come in all shapes, colors and sizes.
We've got to liven things up here!
We've got to liven things up here.
Let's liven up this party!
Bacon's Rebellion (p. 54) has no political meaning for Mr. Bruce. Champlain's fight with the Iroquois is told to liven the narrative with a fight (p. 36), but the far-reaching result is merely hinted in a manner that means nothing to one who doesn't know. The ideals and purposes of the Jesuits are not mentioned.
[…] and he fought for others' banners, And he dined at others' tables, and he droned in others' hives, And he livened others' journeys, and he rhymed of others' tourneys, And he emptied others' flagons, and he flirted others' wives.
1958: Marco Polo, Ronald Latham (translator), The Travels of Marco Polo Instead of the picturesque fables* that liven the pages of ‘Sir John Mandeville’ and of many more authentic travellers, he gives us no less picturesque facts, and facts in great abundance.
1979: The American School Board Journal, volume 166, no. 1, January 1979, published by the National School Boards Association, caption to an image in the May 1979 section Visiting professionals frequently liven the day at the Elm Creative Arts School.
Anacreon […] celebrated wine and love and must have been a rousing fellow. Probably he livened heaven when he arrived.
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[…] to invigorate and liven the spirits.
The fact of this made him realize he had a story. He livened. Father was washed overboard, Rupert said. He was going through the water like a duck.
We liven in fear, but we wot not whither to flee for to be better than we arn here.
What shoulden shepheards other things tend, Then, sith their God his good does them send, Reapen the fruite thereof, that is pleasure, The while they here liven, at ease and leasure?
Wherefore so long as they make their abode In Him, incorp'rate by due Unitie They liven in eternall energie,
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