Sentence examples for was inert from inspiring English sources

Mostly I was inert.

It rolled over, and then was inert.

But the early draft was inert, without a strong voice.

In those first days, his face was inert.

Even "The Great Gate of Kiev" was inert, with fortissimo bluster and glacial tempos substituting unconvincingly for grandeur.

You couldn't believe it, but there she was, inert on the floor, with her tutu in her face.

The shiny, finished object, be it a car or a mansion, was inert, tedious to the eye, dead.

The advantages were that it was inert and stood out clearly in samples taken downwind, said Edward A. Tyczkowski, a fluorine chemist in Newport, Tenn.

The group's account of Tchaikovsky's Trio in A minor (Op. 50) was inert at first; in the opening "Pezzo elegiac" the players opted for sheer weightiness over polish.

The pale, swollen, spotted hand on the girl's knee was inert, like a fat, sleeping lizard that could at any moment awaken and claw up her soft thigh.

He had plenty of time for it, because the taxi he was driving was inert, hemmed in from all sides by London's formidable midmorning gridlock.