Sentence examples for was animate from inspiring English sources
verb
To impart motion or the appearance of motion to.
- If we animate the model, we can see the complexity of the action.
("We always swore the tape was animate. That there were little organisms in there that moved them during the night").
The AMR consisted of phonological transformations of verbs expressing a semantic distinction: whether the preceding noun was animate or inanimate.
The AMR required a specific differential phonological marking for Hebrew verbs depending on whether the preceding noun (the subject) was animate or inanimate.
To test whether 8-year-olds can clearly distinguish between living and non-living objects, forty 8-year-olds, who did not take part in the learning study, were asked to indicate whether each item on a list of 20 common nouns was animate or inanimate.
Staff said she was animated.
But the debate was animated.
Of course I was animated".
What was more convincing was animated films.
His face was animated as he spoke.
