How to Use revivify in a Sentence
revivify
verb
-
Chanin was able to revivify her hometown and create new jobs.
—
Cintra Wilson,
The New York Review of Books,
11 Feb. 2020
-
But the robustness of the entries as a whole was revivifying.
—
Jon Caramanica,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2020
-
What once was old is oh-so-new — and lip-smackingly revivified.
—
Barbara Mahany,
chicagotribune.com,
29 June 2018
-
Over the years, various schemes for revivifying it have been floated, from a church to storage space.
—
William Thornton | [email protected],
al,
25 Sep. 2019
-
Just as revivifying is tuna crudo and compressed grilled watermelon in a fire-and-ice salad slicked with Thai chile oil and garnished with airy chicharrones.
—
Tom Sietsema,
Washington Post,
5 July 2019
-
A revival this impeccably revivified will be hard to beat this Broadway season.
—
Charles Isherwood,
New York Times,
1 Nov. 2016
-
The 24 Republican and 24 Democratic members of the group are hoping to revivify the House’s moribund legislative process and bring a spirit of bipartisanship to the chamber.
—
Matt Ford,
The New Republic,
20 June 2018
-
Carter’s failures helped to revivify a Republican right that was able to sidestep some of the Watergate reforms immediately and chip assiduously away at the rest in the years to come.
—
Kevin Baker,
The New Republic,
17 May 2018
-
Louis barely remembers Alexandre, but, nearing retirement, divorced and in a slump, he is revivified by the attention, and spurred to reconsider his past life.
—
Judith Thurman,
The New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2019
-
Pathways guide you through the life and landscapes of different eras, such as the Late Cretaceous Period some 70 million years ago, revivified in a way through 21st-century technology.
—
The Washington Post,
The Denver Post,
1 Feb. 2017
-
Scientists have been collecting and storing animals’ sperm and egg cells, as well as bits of skin and other tissue, that one day may be used to revivify species in danger of extinction as a result of hunting or habitat loss.
—
Katarina Zimmer /,
NBC News,
21 Mar. 2018
-
Others cite Spain as a validation of the revivifying powers of tough economic reforms.
—
Peter S. Goodman,
New York Times,
28 July 2017
-
Its mural festival jolted a dying city center back to life, and its other projects, like the installation of vintage neon signs and a multicolored lighting system, flooded dark corners with revivifying brightness.
—
Globe Staff,
BostonGlobe.com,
27 July 2019
-
This proposal was lauded as bringing about a necessary legislative reform, but also criticized as an attempt at revivifying the modernist-secularist divide in the country.
—
Nadia Marzouki,
Washington Post,
21 Sep. 2017
-
Left for dead by some original participants, Facebook’s Libra digital currency project is revivifying.
—
Aaron Pressman,
Fortune,
17 Apr. 2020
Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'revivify.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Last Updated:
