WordNet
Usage examples of "animate being".
He became a blasphemy against all nature, for he caused to live and think and act a basic substance that before had never known the pulse and stir of animate being.
Edge keener than her deepest fears, blade brighter than the luminant snow that fell anxiously now as if embarrassed at its delay, it rose toward her like a live, twisting, animate being.
For a few thousand years, they preyed on any animate being, but soon there were not nearly enough to supply them and their ravenous appetites.
Then we went out on the edge of the cliff and Hooed at Morley, and suddenly we could see him, a tiny figure two miles down the valley of boulders moving like a little animate being in the immense void.
The work was on the submolecular level, the very bases on animate being.