GALVANIZATION in a Sentence

Learn GALVANIZATION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

14 example sentences for GALVANIZATION, such as:

1. Her slow turning head stopped, galvanized.
2. It was as though he had received a galvanic shock.
3. The manager's arrival galvanized the workers into activity.
4. The possibility of defeat finally galvanized us into action.
5. Western charities were galvanized by TV pictures of starving people.

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 Meanings and Examples of GALVANIZATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
galvanization
 n.  stimulation that arouses a person to lively action
Classic Sentence:
1  Ellen had been given this preparation for marriage which any well- brought-up young lady received, and she also had Mammy, who could galvanize the most shiftless negro into energy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  It was a row of one-story shops covered with galvanized iron, or with clapboards painted red and bilious yellow.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  One store-building had a patchy galvanized iron cornice; the building beside it was crowned with battlements and pyramids of brick capped with blocks of red sandstone.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  Her slow turning head stopped, galvanized.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
5  He seemed a mere automaton, galvanized into moving and speaking by the wayward Eustacia's will.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
6  He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
7  It was as though he had received a galvanic shock.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
8  The old man sat up erect, pallid, and like a corpse which rises under the influence of a galvanic shock.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES...
Example Sentence:
1  The unexpected news produced a kind of galvanization of the whole team.
2  Perhaps SIV was waiting for some event or announcement to once again galvanize people into marching.
3  The possibility of defeat finally galvanized us into action.
4  The manager's arrival galvanized the workers into activity.
5  Western charities were galvanized by TV pictures of starving people.
6  The street will provide an education, with crucial lessons about environmental stewardship and citizen engagement; youth are leading the way, but many seniors are also galvanized.