1. The party livened up as soon as Sally arrived.

2. He livened up the party by telling a joke.

3. She was a bit subdued to start with, but after a while she livened up.

4. 30 She was a bit subdued to start with, but after a while she livened up.

5. No critical shortages or gluts livened things up this year for traders in the futures pits at the New York Mercantile Exchange.

6. Their stalings were Abidable, for they bore convivial folk together, astride or by coach, eased a traveler's burden, pleased with their speed, heart and endurance, livened hunts, fairs, social occasions or elated one with the order of their finish at a race.

7. There is a sense of spectral whirling through liquid gulfs of infinity, of dizzying rides through reeling universes on a comet’s tail, and of hysterical plunges from the pit to the moon and from the moon back again to the pit, all livened by a Cachinnating chorus of the distorted, hilarious elder gods and the green, bat-winged mocking imps of Tartarus.