How to Use inert in a Sentence

inert

adjective

• How does he propose to stimulate the inert economy and create jobs?
• The missile used by the U.S. in the airstrike, called an R9X, is inert.
  — Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2021
• At times, though, that sound has edged toward the inert and the bloodless.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Bomb techs were able to determine that the item was inert and not live, hence not a threat.
  — cleveland, 19 June 2020
• Instead, one of the best ways to practice is by using inert cans of bear spray.
  — Cameron Evans, Outdoor Life, 6 July 2023
• But the ballet is less directly about that, and, in the end, sadly inert.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
• And yet, the movie would be inert without a strong supporting cast.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 13 June 2022
• Most of the controls and displays built into the steering yoke are inert.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
• But the assumption that Mars is inert is starting to look dead wrong.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Feb. 2021
• Orlando is one of the most inert franchises in the NBA.
  — Matt Eppers, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2020
• The Huskies got the ball back and finally got their inert running game going.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2021
• There’s not a spot of inert space in Chicago, which also got better loans.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 15 Aug. 2020
• The other end of each tube coils like a translucent snake, tethering the inert form in the bed to a gleaming machine — and, with luck, to life.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 28 June 2020
• This has forced the plant to shut down its reactors to safer, although not fully inert, states.
  — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• The most horrifying thing is not just the pair of bound, inert bodies seen lying in the foreground.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 17 Aug. 2023
• In recent years, though, there’s been pushback against the view that cartilage is just an inert lump.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 14 Oct. 2020
• The final version, which mixed and matched four games’ worth of characters and set pieces, was jumbled and inert.
  — Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• When Sondheim balked, finding the material too inert, Robbins told him to read the next play in the book.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2020
• Sheriff's deputies confirmed the item was indeed an inert grenade.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2023
• The plastics industry argues that its products are largely inert in the body and are shed in wastes.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 14 May 2022
• The grenade was found to be inert after the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department’s bomb squad was called to the scene.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2023
• Merkens’s arm over his shoulder and lifts her seemingly inert body just a bit off the floor, several times.
  — Janine Parker, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2022
• That flu vaccine used live virus instead of the more common vaccines which used dead or inert virus to spur the body’s immune response.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 5 Sep. 2020
• Because diamonds are so inert, the method is much more stable than other types of probes, Lukin says.
  — Alla Katsnelson, Scientific American, 15 Jan. 2021
• In the Before Times, many people saw birding as weirdly inert.
  — Sadie Dingfelder, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2020
• Among them: An inert grenade, a gun found inside a raw chicken and fentanyl pills in candy wrappers.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 10 Jan. 2023
• The object was determined to be an inert grenade, a real grenade that has been emptied out, over an hour later.
  — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 27 Oct. 2022
• Authorities have not said how the bullets got mixed into the inert rounds of prop bullets.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• Plastics may look inert, but the chemicals inside them are not.
  — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• When the novel begins, the Caribbean is lifeless and inert.
  — Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024