Sentence examples for inanimate things from inspiring English sources
Stocks are inanimate things.
2. Transf., of inanimate things.
He tosses around words like "thrashing" and, to refer to inanimate things, "bad boys".
They are not inanimate things but receptacles: "tangible evidence of history, memory.
"Live things and inanimate things, made and not made," reads Huyghe's description of his materials.
(Incidentally, Bertozzi & Casoni are not as good with animals as they are with inanimate things).
For in no inanimate thing do we observe a part from which movement originates.
She can be in the backyard and will take any object and talk to this inanimate thing, like these plastic black pipes.
Thus an inanimate thing or a lower animal or a child cannot do anything by chance, because it is incapable of deliberate intention; nor can 'good fortune' or 'ill fortune' be ascribed to them, except metaphorically, as Protarchus, for example, said that the stones of which altars are made are fortunate because they are held in honour, while their fellows are trodden under foot.
To such people, English ships display feminine grace, not because a bulk carrier, barge or battleship is innately female, but because some linguistic convention ensured that for a thousand years after the Norman Conquest, the English language retained "she" for shipping even as it neutered almost every other inanimate thing, including trees.
Throughout the book Larson intelligently explores the point at which a person becomes an object, an inanimate thing, and also considers states of emotional and psychological detachment that cause people to dehumanise and objectify others, and how a "sense of social detachment can turn a person into an object before they are even dead".
