alive with

Idioms  

1. Teeming with, full of, as in After the annual stocking, the pond was alive with trout. [Late 1700s]

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Example Sentences

All those moving parts for a player who only made it onto the park as a sub fielder while Australia were still mathematically alive, with Smith powerless to stop Sri Lanka and Pathum Nissanka's charge.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

Air traffic control’s communications came alive with surprised pilots who saw the accident, some of whom took photos and shot videos of the flaming streaks in the sky:

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2026

Outdoors, the yard is alive with 17-year cicadas who are generating an increasingly eerie background hum while cheerful daytime television hosts lightly suggest ways to turn the situation into a positive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

But in his first start at point guard, Cornish came alive with 18 points, including four three-pointers.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025

By day, nothing seemed to move out there, but at night no man’s land came alive with patrols that went out at dusk and returned at dawn.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

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