alive with

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alive with

Full of or covered with something. At night, the field came alive with fireflies. The court was alive with jubilant fans after the basketball team's big win.

alive with (people or things)

Fig. covered with, filled with, or active with people or creatures. Look! Ants everywhere. The floor is alive with ants!

alive with

Teeming with, full of, as in After the annual stocking, the pond was alive with trout. [Late 1700s]

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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All the low hills were washed with color and even the little clusters of bushes in the corners of the fences were alive with beauty.

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From page one, Campbell has the ability to bring her characters alive with colorful and real language.