Sentence examples for more animate from inspiring English sources

While the 'participants' were in this case inanimate patches of land, they were at the same time far more animate rural ecologies, including animal and human communities well aware of whether culling was taking place or not and reacting accordingly, actively resisting the experiment at times.

But he's barely more animate and he soon fades, this time for good.

'I'm not sure he is just the totally decent one in all of this,' Rylance suggested, now fully himself, more animate than hesitant.

In many ways, bone is more animate than the muscles and fat draped over it or the quivering visceral organs it protectively encages.

It was no more animate than the glass walls of the terrarium, and Gerard wondered how anyone, even an expert, could tell if the thing was alive or dead.

Those who prefer their vicarious family members a bit more animate can adopt a turkey ($15), a bison ($35), a wolf ($25), a lemur ($50 to $1,000), a "cold-stunned" sea turtle ($20), a whale ($35 plus $3 shipping and handling) or a bat (just $15, for which you get "an endearing letter from your bat").

Nick" is more animated, but only just.

Others in the crowd were more animated.

Shakhrudi grew more animated as we spoke.

"I'm more animated, though.

Taylor looks more animated now.