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Meanings of become alive in English

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Usage of become alive in English
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The scent of the orange blossom had become alive and confused everything.
Prisoners: Fast Bound In Misery And Iron
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His whole countenance had become alive with a sort of jealous understanding.
Fraternity
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Now there is a belief that some dolls do actually become alive.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series
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Instead of being indifferent to everything, she had become alive to excess.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Another glance at the mountain-top showed that it had seemed to become alive.
The Lady of the Shroud
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The thing seemed to have become alive-tobe threatening to burst its heart.
All Roads Lead to Calvary
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Yet as Arakawa Junosuke manipulates it, it seems to become alive.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series
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Thus all space may become alive with the possibilities of movement which it offers.
The Principles of Aesthetics
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But, although he vanishes finally, the street has become alive.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26...
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Something has become alive in the moon which floats, a golden disc, amid the clouds.
The Indian Lily and Other Stories
11
Her eyes, usually asleep in distances, had become alive.
Erik Dorn
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The turret and the guns have been heavy dead metal and suddenly they become alive.
Once there was a war
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Then the one bird said, weeping, to the other, 'Can she never become alive again?'
Tales of the Punjab: Folklore of India
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How can that which has long passed become alive again in the river of the heart?
The Irish Times
15
At almost the same instant the bushes round about seemed literally to become alive with outlaws.
Robin Hood
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Had the spirit of the flower become alive?
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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