Sentence examples for were sedentary from inspiring English sources
adjective
Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
- The oyster is a sedentary mollusk
It also suggested the Mongols of the steppe were sedentary; they are primarily nomadic farmers.
One boy, Frank, who is 9, said his favorite activities were sedentary -- reading and playing computer games.
The Iru were sedentary hoe cultivators, for whom the staple crop was millet.
Sixty-four of the men in his study were sedentary, and 89 were trained endurance athletes.
Blastoids were sedentary animals anchored to the seafloor by a stemlike column of circular plates.
The volunteers were mostly in their 60s, and all were sedentary.
Yet the subjects, who ranged in age from their mid-60's to their late 80's, were sedentary and did not exercise or change their diets.
Archaeologists are also trying to understand who the first farmers were, whether hunter-gatherers or pastoralists, and whether they were sedentary.
The team asked the children to wear accelerometers -- devices that record physical motion -- for a week to objectively measure the amount of time that they were sedentary.
But it is worth remembering that the people in those studies were sedentary, said Dr. Vonda Wright, a professor of orthopedics at the University of Pittsburgh.
