bring (something) to life

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: to make (something) very interesting, appealing, or exciting

She brings history to life with her books.

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Due in part to the meticulous hand-embroidering, the look took over 120 hours to bring to life. —

Catherine Santino, People.com, 13 Feb. 2025 Write, score, engrave and emboss on fabrics to bring to life any artistic vision. —

Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2025 An emotional clip about losing a home to wildfires can, for instance, bring to life the human cost of crisis in a way that headlines and statistics cannot. —

Maytal Eyal, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2025 Erivo, 38, and Grande, 31, bring to life the characters first made famous on Broadway in 2003, with Idina Menzel as the original Elphaba and Kristin Chenoweth as the original Glinda. —

Jen Juneau, People.com, 22 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for bring (something) to life

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