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The snake had recently eaten and lay inert in the grass.inert = unmoving
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Even when seemingly cured, a patient can have some HIV virus hiding out in the body, remaining inert for years, until it flares up again to cause disease.inert = inactive
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Employees seem inert and unresponsive. Nobody is solving customer problems.inert = lethargic or without interest
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Her inert body still had a beating heart.inert = unable to move
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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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I look down at Beetee's inert body. (source)inert = unmoving and unable to move
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Unable to find anything more suitable, the four of them were transporting the wounded camerlegno on a narrow table, balancing the inert body between them as though on a stretcher. (source)inert = unmoving or unable to move
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The man dismounted and stood inertly there, while he explained.† (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)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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His daughter, Betty Parris, aged ten, is lying on the bed, inert. (source)inert = unmoving
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The spare form flexibly acquiesced, but inertly.† (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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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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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)
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He pulled himself along the hot sand on his knees for a time, but in the end he lay stretched out in the vastness of those pale dunes as birds of prey circled over his inert body. (source)
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