come alive

1. Also, come to life.

2. Become vigorous or lively. For example, It took some fast rhythms to make the dancers come alive , or As soon as he mentioned ice cream, the children came to life . The adjective alive has been used in the sense of “vivacious” since the 1700s. Also, the variant originally (late 1600s) meant “to recover from a faint or apparent death.” [ Colloquial ; first half of 1900s]

3. Appear real or believable, as in It's really hard to make this prose come to life . Also see look alive .

Example Sentences

That obviously added to the pressure on Shah ahead of this committee appearance – and this is the part of his evidence where he came alive.

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But Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City offense came alive late, allowing the Chiefs to tie up the game and win 23-20 in overtime.

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“I closed my eyes,” Colletto said, “and it all came alive again.”

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What they don't have enough of is warriors who come alive when things are going awry.

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It’s in these instances when the film comes alive, and Cosm’s take on experiential cinema no longer feels like a novelty and becomes an experience.

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