Sentence examples for inoperative things from inspiring English sources
"Words are vital things," explained Crummell, since they are "always generative of life or death" and cannot "enter the soul as passive and inoperative things" (19).
Previous assumptions are inoperative.
ETA became virtually inoperative.
Whatever the explanation, it was soon enough inoperative.
As the investigation into Watergate unraveled, Mr. Ziegler admitted that his previous statements had become "inoperative".
This renders Section 5 inoperative unless Congress comes up with a revised version of determining coverage.
An inoperative garden hose sits at the top, one last cruel joke.
There are inexpensive jammers that make cellphones inoperative within a few hundred feet.
Further testing showed that seven of the eight human V1r genes are inoperative.
The Soviet intervention, however, demanded a new consensus, because it made the existing consensus inoperative.
Facts that have been exposed as false, for instance, are rendered "inoperative".
