Sentence examples for became sedentary from inspiring English sources

When they became sedentary and began to cultivate corn (maize), they also began to build circular pits as storage bins.

As soon as we became sedentary, agricultural tribes with social boundaries, one seminal myth might have featured our ancestors as primitive beasts who slept in the cold loam of the earth and fed off the salty blood of the living.

In the 1980's, after cars became affordable here, Okinawans who had been used to walking and riding buses became sedentary, said Dr. Kazuo Ishikawa, a diabetes expert at Urasoe General Hospital.

In some studies of former collegiate athletes, those who became sedentary and took to their couches after graduation lived no longer than people who had never participated in college sports.

Within the stele a number of nematodes became sedentary and selected vascular parenchyma tissue containing xylem and phloem to induce their feeding site.

More and more pastoralists became sedentary within the last 20 years, performing different kinds of income-generating activities (wage labour, petty trading and sale of charcoal, firewood, grass mats, etc).

It's only recently that we've become sedentary, and our bodies haven't caught up.

What the studies haven't determined is whether the benefits of exercise disappear when people become sedentary.

By no means, however, does this suggest that the underweight should suddenly become sedentary in an effort to gain weight.

Star college athletes who have become sedentary live no longer than anyone else, Dr. Paffenbarger has found.

Their lives have become sedentary, with more hours spent in front of a television or computer than at play or doing physically exerting work.