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liven

[ US /ˈɫaɪvən/ ]
[ UK /lˈa‍ɪvn/ ]
VERB
  1. make lively
    let's liven up this room a bit

How To Use liven In A Sentence

  • That sense of aliveness isn't there when you read the text, and seeing the performance will be much more engaging.
  • Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. Erich Fromm 
  • I have returned to campus enlivened by a sense of professional renewal, and I have developed course syllabi, assignments, and activities that incorporate many ideas from my fellowship experiences.
  • Maybe I should bring along my trumpet to liven things up! The Sun
  • A stroll down a supermarket aisle is enlivened by signs such as this one: June « 2009 « Sentence first
  • Sironi's peer in sculpture was Arturo Martini, who also used archaic forms to enliven the classical tradition in search of a non-rhetorical Fascist style.
  • a life unenlivened by romance
  • Drawings, paintings, photographs, charts, schematics and maps enliven technical discussions of building sequences that might tax a nonexpert. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Tell him that you want to strengthen your love and liven things up. The Sun
  • His complex philosophies are enlivened by often hilarious cracks. Times, Sunday Times
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