INERT in a Sentence

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20 example sentences for INERT, such as:

1. He lay, inert, in his bed.
2. He covered the inert body with a blanket.
3. But something else in her was strange and inert and heavy.
4. Connie still suffered, having to lift his inert legs into place.
5. Potential intelligence, like potential, can remain inert forever.

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 Meanings and Examples of INERT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
inert
 a.  inactive; lacking power to move; unable to move or act
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  But, though both stout of heart, and strong of person, Athelstane had a disposition too inert and unambitious to make the exertions which Cedric seemed to expect from him.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  He went pale, with a sort of fear, when he saw Connie lifting the inert legs of the man in her arms, into the other chair, Clifford pivoting round as she did so.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  In the wood all was utterly inert and motionless, only great drops fell from the bare boughs, with a hollow little crash.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
4  But something else in her was strange and inert and heavy.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
5  Yet he broke the band of her underclothes, for she did not help him, only lay inert.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
6  And as it subsided, he subsided too and lay utterly still, unknowing, while her grip on him slowly relaxed, and she lay inert.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
7  Connie still suffered, having to lift his inert legs into place.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
8  She was angry, with the complicated and confused anger that made her inert.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
9  I sprang to my feet, my inert hand grasping my pistol, my mind paralyzed by the dreadful shape which had sprung out upon us from the shadows of the fog.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
10  The scaffold is not a piece of carpentry; the scaffold is not a machine; the scaffold is not an inert bit of mechanism constructed of wood, iron and cords.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
11  Marius, who was, perhaps, dead, weighed him down as inert bodies weigh.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS
12  Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion submitting to the claws of a lynx.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF ...
13  Only this time it was no longer an inert body, without feeling, that the villain had to deal with.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
14  Edmond shuddered when he heard the painful efforts which the old man made to drag himself along; his leg was inert, and he could no longer make use of one arm.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18. The Treasure.
15  As it sank he became less and less frenzied; and just as it dipped he slid from the hands that held him, an inert mass, on the floor.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence:
1  He covered the inert body with a blanket.
2  The inert figure of a man could be seen lying in the front of the car.
3  He lay, inert, in his bed.
4  Potential intelligence, like potential, can remain inert forever.