Sentence examples for sometimes alive from inspiring English sources

The music is sometimes alive with folkloric tunes and sprightly dances, sometimes thick with dizzying passages of demonic counterpoint, sometimes both at once.

Between 1943 and 1947, thousands of Italians were dragged from their homes by Yugoslav partisans, often tortured, bound hand-and-foot and tossed (sometimes alive) into deep chasms known as foibe.

Over a period of several centuries, female convicts were publicly burnt at the stake, sometimes alive, for a range of activities including coining and mariticide.

Unlike elephants and rhinos, they're also often shipped whole and sometimes alive, which makes dealing with any seizures a tricky affair.

The dancers' coiled stillness is a counterpoint to Mr. Hopkins's vibrantly (sometimes painfully) alive score.

Never mind the improvement in the weather; in the three months which stretch roughly from mid-March to mid-June, living things are at their most vividly, and sometimes dramatically, alive, and observing them gives us the most intense pleasure.

Blood feuds all but disappeared here during the 40-year rule of Enver Hoxha, Albania's Communist dictator, who outlawed the practice, sometimes burying alive those who disobeyed in the coffins of their victims.

When, a few years ago, I read about hundreds of enslaved children working in brick kilns in Henan, kidnapped, beaten, underfed, and sometimes buried alive with the complicity of the police and local authorities, I really did start wondering about the extent to which the famine is still casting its long and dark shadow over the country.

The Russian news media had nicknamed him the Chessboard Killer and the Bitsevsky Maniac, a reference to the park where he lured scores of victims to secluded drinking sessions, which ended when he bludgeoned them with blunt objects and tried to stuff them, sometimes still alive, into a sewer pipe.

Mills and McCartney protested against seals being clubbed to death, pierced with boat hooks and sometimes skinned alive.

Birds killed in American slaughterhouses are denied legal protections, and like dogs in Yulin, have their throats cut while they're still conscious and are even sometimes boiled alive.