Sentence examples for sedentary existence from inspiring English sources

Like Hamza and Martha, Nabirye Haliyati, 15, lives a sedentary existence.

What my arsenal of gadgets initially made clear is that I live, like many modern Americans, a preposterously sedentary existence.

Many genes for taste and smell show signs of selective pressure, perhaps reflecting the change in foodstuffs as people moved from nomadic to sedentary existence.

Because Mr. Kauffman also smoked heavily for much of his life, and led a sedentary existence in his last years, no one can be sure that the weight he gained while on Zyprexa caused his heart attack.

The researchers point out, though, that the people in the region were changing from life as hunter-gatherers to a more sedentary existence, so perhaps the society was beginning to stratify, as the presence of the gold would suggest.

But the leisure and sedentary existence that the Jomon would have required for their pottery have generally been supposed to result from climatic changes at the end of the ice age.

Since the beginning of sedentary human existence, fire has shaped our settlements.

He is adventurous in a sedentary world.

But they do not add much to knowledge about hunter-gatherers' way of life, about what they ate or, most crucially, about whether and when they took the first tentative steps towards a more sedentary form of existence.

"The Raven" imagines an action-packed end to a life that had, in reality, been rather sad and sedentary: a writer's existence lived more vividly in the mind than in the actual world, where there's never enough money, never enough time and scant opportunities for heroism.

Its climate is characterized by annual cycles of wet and dry seasons allowing the co-existence of sedentary farmers and nomadic pastoralists who move with their livestock between wet- and dry-season pastures [ 51, 52].