Example Sentences

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Villarreal: Did you feel an aliveness in dancing that you don’t feel in writing, or?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025

But, in essence, what audiences relate to the most is this loose sense of aliveness, that things can go wrong or be brilliant or beautiful.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

“It’s about the fragility of life and the proximity to death, and how physical presence, how aliveness, can be denied through acts of violence, and pervasively through the denial of our humanity.”

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2022

Such wording was inspired in part by the idea that people can embrace cardiac activity as the moment of aliveness, even though a heart is not then fully developed.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2022

There was a tension in the wood, a sense of aliveness and secrecy.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill