Sentence examples for a sedentary existence from inspiring English sources

Like Hamza and Martha, Nabirye Haliyati, 15, lives a sedentary existence.

Because Mr. Kauffman also smoked heavily for much of his life, and led a sedentary existence in his last years, no one can be sure that the weight he gained while on Zyprexa caused his heart attack.

These followers of Black Kettle were considering their options in the face of intense pressure to accept a sedentary existence and a ruthless strategy of continual pursuit invoked by General Philip H. Sheridan.

An analysis of 20 years of published data on people's daily energy expenditure indicates that overeating, rather than a sedentary existence, is the major cause of the industrial world's obesity epidemic.

What my arsenal of gadgets initially made clear is that I live, like many modern Americans, a preposterously sedentary existence.

The researchers point out, though, that the people in the region were changing from life as hunter-gatherers to a more sedentary existence, so perhaps the society was beginning to stratify, as the presence of the gold would suggest.

He is adventurous in a sedentary world.

Just signing up for that race was no small accomplishment for Mr. Adami, who, not six months earlier, had been leading the sedentary existence of a trader and carrying a flabby 235 pounds on his 6-foot-3 frame.

Many genes for taste and smell show signs of selective pressure, perhaps reflecting the change in foodstuffs as people moved from nomadic to sedentary existence.

But the leisure and sedentary existence that the Jomon would have required for their pottery have generally been supposed to result from climatic changes at the end of the ice age.

The shift from a hunter-gatherer existence to a sedentary one may be the most important innovation in human existence.