Sample Sentences for
inert
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    She considers our political system inert and calls for violent revolution as the path to change.
    inert = unmoving
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    The audience sat inert and unmoved by her speech.
    inert = unmoved and without interest
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    Father! Wake up. They're trying to throw you out of the carriage…. His body remained inert.  (source)
    inert = unmoving, or unable to move
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    His daughter, Betty Parris, aged ten, is lying on the bed, inert.  (source)
    inert = unmoving
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    The man dismounted and stood inertly there, while he explained.†  (source)
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    Lastly, I saw Mr. Mason was submissive to Mr. Rochester; that the impetuous will of the latter held complete sway over the inertness of the former: the few words which had passed between them assured me of this.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Even then I kept seeing the soldier's body tumbling toward the water, splashing down hard, how inert and heavy it was, how completely dead.  (source)
    inert = unmoving or unable to move
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    For a moment Boldwood stood so inertly after this that his soul seemed to have been entirely exhaled with the breath of his passionate words.†  (source)
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    Harriet stayed in the cabin from Christmas until March, and toward the end of this long period of inertness, she began to pray for the conversion of Edward Brodas, repeating the same prayer, over and over again, "Change his heart, Lord, convert him."†  (source)
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    For the first time in his life he did not despise the proles or think of them merely as an inert force which would one day spring to life and regenerate the world.  (source)
    inert = inactive
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    "You're so goddam funny it isn't even funny," Mr. McArdle said, lying inertly on his back again.†  (source)
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    It was not flattery that he wanted, she had seen him listening to the obsequious compliments of liars, listening with a look of resentful inertness-almost the look of a drug addict at a dose inadequate to rouse him.†  (source)
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    She had never seen Marilla sit limply inert like that.  (source)
    inert = lethargic and without interest
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