Sentence examples for like inert from inspiring English sources

Having covered a couple of Tours, I can remember how the weary riders would receive 45-minute massages, like inert hunks of meat, just so they could hobble off to supper and bed and somehow get back on their machines the next morning.

An inspiration for Schopenhauer's view that ideas are like inert objects is George Berkeley (1685 1753), who describes ideas in this despiritualized way in his A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) [Section 25].

The concept is shown to be quite useful for yield improvements of the precursor component propylene chlorohydrin, and for the optimization of other system parameters like inert gas in feed with respect to yield and selectivity of the key component.

It's worked: online dating and social networks now have us selling ourselves like inert objects, and it doesn't even feel weird.

The studies considered not only the gas phase, the solution, and the solid state but in recent years also nitrosyl complexes immobilized on supports like inert metal surfaces.

Humans performing like machines; inert materials behaving like nature — Biddle's process is a stage upon which little dramas of creation unfold.

There have been a few examples of homeopaths and the like advertising their inert sugar pills as a viable measles treatment in response to the outbreak.

In "One, Two, Three" (1964), the upper big brown circle and the three small ovals (orange, off-white and blue) below are like weightless balloons; the whole looks like an inert Color Field painting.

In the absence of NAD+ it exerted, on the contrary, a masking effect, like an inert protein.

It had the orbit of a long-distance Oort comet, but it looked like an inert piece of rock, similar to an asteroid, not a volatile, icy comet.

The particles, much like an inert marker in a Kirkendall effect experiment, move towards the δ layer through the Γ layer because silicon-rich α-Fe cannot be adsorbed in the Γ layer.