Still breathing

Usage examples of alive.

Huge windows revealed the night outside as it came alive with stars, and glowing torches stood like sentries along the walls.

As the sun dipped down, the city came alive with candles, blinking in the round windows and lending the place an orange sheen.

The dunes seemed to move as if alive, and the dust storms sang in the distance, warning of their approach.

Jiri and Neel told Lukien that Cassandra was still alive, though only barely.

He was sixteen today, and if his mother was still alive she would have been here kissing him.

The chamber was alive with plants and blooming flowers, colors and varieties Gilwyn had never seen.

She wore a patchwork coat that swirled around her as if alive, shifting with the colors of the brick and misty rain.

The springs snapped to life and the armatures began moving, and soon the dark spider was alive, whirring and purring under its own mechanical power.

The one-eyed madman seemed to care nothing for his own life, yet made staying alive look so easy.

Lukien had never seen before, a tiny thing with shocking white hair and elfin ears and a coat that seemed alive with color.

It was as if the armor itself was alive, pulsing with preternatural light.

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Theoretically, everyone now alive could be fed, housed, clad by nanotech.

She was famous for many things, her three husbands, her stable of male concubines, the ruthlessness and cleverness that had kept her alive and in power for decades.

I also want to know if he was even alive up on the balcony when it happened.