Sentence examples for once alive from inspiring English sources

More to the point, is it (or was it once) alive?

Where once Times Square was hot, it is now cold, where once varied, now uniform, where once alive, now dead.

What better setting than a disused Tube station, once alive to the tramp of commuters' feet and now a place of complete darkness and silence?

That meant the actors had to immerse themselves in character, playing someone they knew was once alive but had died in such a terrible fashion.

Once the system has collapsed, the information it holds is no longer a dream or a secret or a strange cat at once alive and dead; the answer is then just an ordinary thing we can read off a screen.

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia, June 5 — In the southern part of this city a short street once alive with guest houses, restaurants, travel agencies and souvenir shops now sits quiet, with barely a soul to be found, just weeks before the onset of the tourist season.

Because it was dead, its form intimated painfully that it had once been alive.

The manager was once buried alive in concrete, presumed dead, then emerged again at another match.

All the embryos died, but the debate over human cloning is once again alive.

Once trapped alive, the rodents have to be released somewhere, and they will either infest another house or die of starvation.

But a National Intelligence Estimate in October 2002 had asserted with "high confidence" that the activity indicated that Iraq's chemical weapons program was once again alive.