animate
verb (used with object)
to give life to; make alive.
are animating
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present progressiveof animate.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Other issues also are animating the race, including debate over the response to the Palisades fire and a controversial housing project in Venice.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
“It is these risk scenarios that are animating them,” Sahm said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 2025
As in the novel, Dana and Rufus turn out to be historically intertwined, with whatever forces are animating this strange relationship safeguarding her existence as well as his.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
“Not only are we in live-action superhero movies, but they are animating us now,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 10, 2018
Some of the men are on foot; others are riding two on the same horse, and officers are animating their men with the flat of their swords.
From A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine)
