Sentence examples for had been inert from inspiring English sources

For months now, Ruth had been inert, almost unwakeable.

"I've been inert to seeing myself as a woman versus a man," she said.

These elements would, therefore, be expected to be observed as human-specific insertions more often than the DNA transposons, for example, which have been inert for tens of millions of years.

How will we tell the children that their lives would have been better if we had been less inert, less idealistic, more adaptable to circumstances?

After nine months, there were fourteen new H.I.V. infections in the placebo group the two hundred people who had been given inert pills and only two new infections among those who were given antiviral medication.

Charging on the bunt and running down the first-base line, Rodriguez looked like a lumbering 37-year-old who, as he noted, had been virtually inert for almost nine months.

"They were inert and had been supplied by undercover law enforcement personnel".

For many years, gold had been considered as an inert metal.

A validation of the model in humans had been performed by the argon inert gas technique beforehand [ 20].

In 1957, Leo Sternbach, a chemist for Hoffmann-La Roche who had spent his career researching them, was about to throw away the last of a series of compounds he had been testing that had proven to be pharmacologically inert.

I bought it for making rye bread and it has been sitting inert ever since.