Sample Sentences forsedentary (auto-selected)
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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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Studies of sedentary flesh, painted by men who'd never been there.† (source)
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"What does sedentary mean?" asked Wilbur.† (source)
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Alexander was mostly on his own as well—too young for the girls and too sedentary for Stem's boys.† (source)
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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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The Bikura lead dull, sedentary lives.† (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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Picture yourself, Jack, a confirmed homebody, a sedentary fellow who finds himself walking in a deep wood.† (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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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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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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They had been in the house for many months and had grown complacent and plump, their sedentary labor allowing them to acquire a suetlike avoirdupois bizarre-looking amid this fel lowship of emaciated flesh.† (source)
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Or Slate, a sedentary name.† (source)
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Nearly a quarter of the human race's total activity, it had been calculated, was now expended on sports of various kinds, ranging from such sedentary occupations as chess to lethal pursuits like ski-gliding across mountain valleys.† (source)
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Chance: Scotty, there's no tailor on earth than can disguise a sedentary occupation.† (source)
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