Sentence examples for be inert from inspiring English sources

But maybe he wanted them to be inert.

At least, it would, but it would be inert.

These chemicals were thought to be inert and harmless.

The mortar shell was determined to be inert, the police said.

You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair.

"The Terror" rarely does; it's a take-it-or-leave-it album that's willing to be inert or annoying.

Mr. Kentridge is a skilled draftsman who almost entirely lacks an original touch: his images tend to be inert if they're not in motion.

Many of the munitions have turned out to be inert, and some that the lieutenant described as "trainer" grenades were never highly explosive.

Let yourself be inert, wait till the incomprehensible power... that has broken you restores you a little, I say a little, for henceforth you will always keep something broken about you.

That Hemingway paragraph would be inert artifice were it not for the "comfortable sound" that captures the impossible yearning of soldiers about to be sent either to slaughter or the gray twilight of retreat.

In this description salt is considered to be inert.