Sentence examples for they were inert from inspiring English sources

"They were inert and had been supplied by undercover law enforcement personnel".

I knew that they were inert plastic and could be tumbled without consequences upside down and half naked in the toy box.

The stony representations of floating things — feathered wings, blossoms, and petals — made Ines feel queasy, for they were inert and weighed down; they were pulled toward the earth and what was under it.

These lipids are expressed at very low levels in nondividing cells and have been studied little because it was assumed that they were inert precursors during ceramide synthesis.

So we are neither: they are represented blankly, like the forest itself, and like the film, they are inert.

At least one study has shown that placebos can be effective even when the patients know that they are inert.

If they miss, they are inert: unlike old-style weapons, they won't go off when prodded with a stick.

They are inert and adrift, and in depicting the sad, slow drift of lives the film itself succumbs to the ambient depression.

THEY are inert, smelly and upsetting to look at it's a wonder that dead bodies are in such high demand.

Digital products are weird: they are inert without software to animate them, and software is so technologically and legally weird that it can be very hard to know exactly what you're buying.

But mineral sunscreens also have their devoted fans because they're "inert, and completely nontoxic," said Dr. David Colbert, a dermatologist in Manhattan who says that he slathers himself with zinc oxide before he goes surfing.