How to Use reanimate in a Sentence

reanimate

verb
  • Frogs that freeze solid overnight in the Andes and then reanimate by day.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 26 Apr. 2025
  • She has been reanimated after having thrown herself off the edge of a bridge.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
  • The man whose invention could reanimate the dead had vanished, never to be seen again.
    — Nat Segnit, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
  • Fanatics have been known to reanimate causes of all stripes.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Or Armstrong could take a sharp left turn and reanimate Roy’s rotten corpse.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The scientists and guards just stand there a few feet away waiting for the super zombies to reanimate.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Simon hatches a spell that reanimates them until five questions are asked.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
  • There’s the eye monster that crawled inside Arthur’s body and reanimated him, and the plant monster is still out there.
    — Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 23 Sep. 2025
  • West's low-budget first film finds a quartet of friends being menaced by bats whose victims reanimate into the walking dead.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2022
  • As a young man, he gets kicked out of medical school for trying to reanimate a half-corpse pieced together from the parts of two deceased humans.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Speaking of that mystery, watching eight dead bodies reanimate and walk around town like zombies was very unsettling.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 1 June 2023
  • Booth speaks about seeing a physicist use electricity to reanimate the corpse of a criminal.
    — Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • In the first half of the new season, she's reanimated the dead, gained an invisible stalker, and lost a duel with her own mother.
    — PC Magazine, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Dustin tries to reanimate his relationship with Lauren in order to gain her support in his rewrite of the script.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Lovelace is a key figure in the development of the computer, and the perfect subject to be reanimated in this way.
    — Charlie Fink, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
  • In every image, Vance has been reanimated as an utter doofus.
    — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2025
  • These details don’t fully reanimate either character, but their tang intimates how much remains out of reach.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Old villains will reanimate like zombies and new ones will form like mega Deadites come to wipe out your whole family — chosen or otherwise.
    — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 12 June 2024
  • What Bolton has tried to do is to reanimate these gowns with supplementary scientific (or science-lite) displays.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 9 May 2024
  • Burkhart was the first to use his brain to reanimate his own paralyzed arm using muscular electrical stimulation.
    — Elissa Welle, STAT, 18 July 2022
  • Perhaps the very forces that facilitated our exile from Eden will one day reanimate our garden with digital life.
    — Meghan O'Gieblyn, Wired, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The single also manages to reanimate and return to the Hot R&B Songs chart.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Curious Black patrons jumped into the mosh pit, feeling welcome enough to try it, while old heads were reanimated by genre nostalgia.
    — Deborah Sengupta Stith, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
  • One of the pleasures of popular history is the retrieval of fascinating but forgotten episodes that reanimate an epic era.
    — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The main character was a fabrication, but her family consisted of my friends, reanimated on the page.
    — Gayle Forman, People.com, 25 Dec. 2024
  • To show that senescent melanocytes ooze out a molecule that reanimates follicles, the team engineered mice with nevi to not produce osteopontin.
    — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 12 July 2023
  • Toy Story is literally a child’s fantasy come to life, imagining a world where toys have lives of their own and reanimate whenever the kids leave the room.
    — Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
  • In short, a medical student decides to reanimate the corpse of his fiancée after she’s killed in a freak lawnmower accident at a barbecue.
    — Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 24 Oct. 2023
  • There’s a huge difference between memorializing a piece of pop culture and reanimating it.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The invention of the marathon relied on history, legend, and invention in equal parts, both reanimating the past and creating a path for new values to take hold.
    — Miriam Kamil, JSTOR Daily, 20 Nov. 2024

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