Sample Sentences for
galvanize
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galvanize as in:  galvanized into action

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The event is intended to galvanize support for the fight against man-made global warming and climate change.
galvanize = stimulate to action
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    Although rare, a plus four—for dire emergency—galvanizes everyone into action.  (source)
    galvanizes = stimulates or motivates
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    The words are the same, but the voice of Madame Ruelle is different. Galvanized.  (source)
    Galvanized = stimulating or energizing
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    It was a mistake; the radio had suddenly gone quiet, and my voice ringing in the abrupt, releasing hush galvanized them all.  (source)
    galvanized = stimulated to action
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    While for Napoleon on Elba, strolling among chickens, fending off flies, and sidestepping puddles of mud, it was visions of a triumphal return to Paris that galvanized his will to persevere.  (source)
    galvanized = stimulated or strengthened
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    The panic in Katie's voice seemed to galvanize Josh and he grabbed Kristen's hand and took off running.  (source)
    galvanize = stimulate to action
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    A tumult up the road, a quarrel for a place in a waggon, sent the whole host of them quickening their pace; even a man so scared and broken that his knees bent under him was galvanised for a moment into renewed activity.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it galvanized.
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    I understand that, but I do not understand what it is that galvanizes you in this manner.†  (source)
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    THE FACT that I'd become used to life in prison shocked my friends and family, but no one on the outside can really appreciate the galvanizing effect of all the regimented rituals, whether official or informal.†  (source)
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    —Communist pamphlet (5) If a new spirit is to be infused into this old country, there is one thorny and contentious reform which must be tackled, and that is the humanization and galvanization of the B.B.C. Timidity here will bespeak canker and atrophy of the soul.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    The words galvanized Bernard into violent and unseemly activity.  (source)
    galvanized = stimulated to action
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    She prowled the foulest, most sordid neighborhoods of the city, fearlessly talking to prostitutes and trying to galvanize them to work together and inform on the pimps.  (source)
    galvanize = stimulate to action
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    Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been galvanised.†  (source)
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    Miss Hepzibah, by secluding herself from society, has lost all true relation with it, and is, in fact, dead; although she galvanizes herself into a semblance of life, and stands behind her counter, afflicting the world with a greatly-to-be-deprecated scowl.†  (source)
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galvanize as in:  galvanized steel

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The screws were supposed to be galvanized, but they rusted anyway.
galvanized = coated with zinc
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    The pagoda-style roofs were made of gold-tinged tiles and surrounded by qilin gargoyles, but the tiles were actually galvanized steel covered with tiny solar capsules that created enough energy to...  (source)
    galvanized = coated with zinc (to prevent rust)
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    I was tossing pebbles into an old galvanized-tin pail nearby and she startled me.  (source)
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    In a corner of the room stand two galvanized buckets filled to the rim with water.  (source)
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    A galvanized smokestack pierced its sloped roof.  (source)
    galvanized = coated with zinc (to prevent rust)
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    The galvanized bucket remained perfectly still on top of her head—a great, levitating crown.  (source)
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    THE SHOP IN FRANKLIN was ready to roof, so two days after Christmas I forced my toe, still crooked and black, into a steel-toed boot, then spent the morning on a roof driving threading screws into galvanized tin.  (source)
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    Beside the blockhouse, we erected a flagpole, of two-inch galvanized pipe discovered abandoned alongside a gas wellhead up Mudhole Hollow  (source)
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    And it's everybody taking a bath in the round galvanized tub, then Obasan washing clothes in the water after and standing outside hanging the clothes in the freezing weather where everything instantly stiffens on the line.  (source)
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    He nestled the galvanized steel pails into the crushed ice, capped them, and slammed the lid of the chest.  (source)
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    His dad had saved a thousand dollars and set about rebuilding their leaking roof with galvanized sheet metal.  (source)
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    Instead I looked with loathing on new dresses that required a hateful bath in a galvanized zinc tub before wearing.  (source)
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    He tied the horses in front of the tienda he'd passed the night before and went in and bought a sack of oats for the horses and he borrowed a galvanized bucket with which to water them and he stood in the alameda leaning on the rifle and watching them drink.  (source)
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    The bathroom at the end of our corridor had two seawater showers, a saltwater tap, and three large galvanized metal buckets, which were used as bathtubs.  (source)
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