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They met in the Peace Corps in Papua New Guinea, and so whenever anything happened there, even something terrible, it was like all of a sudden they were not large sedentary creatures, but the young and idealistic and self-sufficient and rugged people they had once been... (source)sedentary = inactive
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I'm always sitting and so glad to be moving about for five minutes… I suffer from my sedentary life… (source)sedentary = inactive (requiring sitting or little activity)
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He also turned the tables and started lecturing the grandfatherly figure about the shortcomings of his sedentary existence, urging the eighty-year-old to sell most of his belongings, move out of the apartment, and live on the road.† (source)
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Studies of sedentary flesh, painted by men who'd never been there.† (source)
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Lowering the metabolic rate prevented hunger from exhausting supplies People trudged and dawdled, even in summer After the revolution, in Alsace and the Pas-de-Calais, officials complained that wine growers and independent farmers, instead of undertaking "some peaceful and sedentary industry" in the quieter season, "abandon themselves to dumb idleness."† (source)
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The Bikura lead dull, sedentary lives.† (source)
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A fully grown sedentary dragon could go for months without food, but in mating season they had to eat every week.† (source)
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Those occupations are relatively sedentary and you have the body of a man who's been subjected to physical stress.† (source)
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But his sedentary life, which accentuated his cheekbones and concentrated the sparkle of his eyes, did not increase his weight or alter the parsimony of his character, but, on the contrary, it hardened on his lips the straight line of solitary meditation and implacable decision.† (source)
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Or Slate, a sedentary name.† (source)
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Picture yourself, Jack, a confirmed homebody, a sedentary fellow who finds himself walking in a deep wood.† (source)
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In the United States, people have become increasingly sedentary — driving to work instead of walking, performing little manual labor, driving to do errands, watching television, playing video games, and using a computer instead of exercising.† (source)
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Since his profession was usually sedentary, he kept his muscles toned and his build rangy with regular, often punishing workouts.† (source)
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After the sedentary life of the Senate, Adams relished the days out of doors.† (source)
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"What does sedentary mean?" asked Wilbur.† (source)
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While I was not always successful with my children, I did manage to influence some of my more sedentary colleagues.† (source)
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