Sentence examples for in a sedentary from inspiring English sources

He is adventurous in a sedentary world.

I was raised in a sedentary household.

Being in a sedentary occupation for a year leads to a small increase in weight; but staying in that occupation for 14 years causes a significant increase.

But the daily physical difficulties patients experience, along with attendant isolation and depression, often result in a sedentary lifestyle and dependence on medication.

Plodding DIY is my favourite: I love wallpapering when you have lots of time and can do it in a sedentary fashion (don't wallpaper when you've got someone coming to visit the next morning!).

In studies recently completed there, Susanne B. Votruba showed that when a person was active, the fat in a meal tended to be burned for energy, but in a sedentary person, the amount of fat burned went way down and ended up being stored instead of used by the muscles.

In contrast, a sedentary lifestyle is associated with a small but significant negative effect on birth weight (Table  5).

Similar results were recently reported from Canada [ 12], but in Switzerland and Spain a sedentary lifestyle was associated with less satisfactory BP control [ 23, 30].

For example, in hamsters, a sedentary lifestyle is known to reduce cartilage sGAG content, whereas daily exercise prevents this loss [ 6].

A limitation of accelerometers, however, is that sedentary time is estimated based on lack of movement, rather than the way in which a sedentary behaviour may be manifested (reclining or sitting posture) [ 21].

In adulthood, exercise intolerance may result in extremes of a sedentary lifestyle and result in obesity.