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verb

galvanize

to shock or excite someone into taking action

In a sentence

Six example sentences with galvanize, each labelled with its topic.

  • A single closed school galvanized the neighborhood, and four hundred residents filled the council chamber within a fortnight.

    Politics

  • Watching the club's oldest member finish the marathon galvanized the newcomers, and attendance doubled the following Monday.

    Fitness

  • The surprise patch galvanized a fading community, and the servers held twice their usual population by the weekend.

    Gaming

  • A rival's launch galvanized the small team, and features that had drifted for months shipped within a fortnight.

    Startups

  • A halftime speech galvanized the bench, and the reserves came out pressing full court until the lead had vanished.

    Basketball

  • Photographs of the polluted creek galvanized the village, and sixty volunteers spent the next Saturday pulling tyres from the water.

    Environment

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