How to Use inertia in a Sentence
inertia
noun- He blames governmental inertia for the holdup.
- After 10 years in an unsatisfying job she overcame her inertia and went back to school.
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While columnist Abe Kwok warns that the inertia could last for years.
— Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2024 -
The inertia wheel quickly kicked in and arrested the fall as advertised.
— Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 2 July 2018 -
Its inertia reel eliminates friction within the device and makes the task of giving and taking slack effortless.
— Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 2 July 2018 -
But most linger on, shielded by bureaucratic inertia, lack of resources or sympathetic judges.
— Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 26 June 2018 -
The result is political inertia until a new leader emerges with new energy and ideas to forge a new majority.
— The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2018 -
There was one person, notably, who resisted those inertias: Helen herself.
— Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 6 July 2018 -
Most advocacy groups are trying to be patient, chalking the delays up to the inevitable inertia of a giant bureaucracy forced to change.
— New York Times, 5 July 2018 -
Most advocacy groups are trying to be patient, chalking up the delays to the inevitable inertia of a giant bureaucracy forced to change.
— Dave Philipps, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2018 -
The inertia brings about the kind of symbolic transformation common to the collection: Their faces begin to lose shape and slip from their bodies.
— Sam Sacks, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2018 -
Doing so means pushing against elements of human nature, the greed of wealthy incumbents, and the sheer inertia of anachronistic mechanisms of governance.
— David Roberts, Vox, 3 Aug. 2018 -
With the free agency of LeBron James looming over the entire franchise, the Cavs chose activity over inertia.
— Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 29 June 2018 -
To make the thing go, the researchers relied on the inertia, not of the fluid, but of the beads themselves.
— Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 13 May 2021 -
Now, the club appears to be paying the price for that inertia.
— Joshua Law, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021 -
The only thing standing in the way of progress was decades of NBA inertia.
— Ben Cohen, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020 -
Usually, the longer the nap, the more sleep inertia there is to overcome.
— Steven Bender, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023 -
The force of inertia keeps my mind there, even though my body is somewhere else.
— Ben Croll, Variety, 3 Dec. 2023 -
Start up inertia is the amount of pressure a fish must overcome to get the drag moving.
— Jerry Audet, Field & Stream, 10 Apr. 2023 -
As the motors fight against the car's inertia, the noise cavitates your eardrums.
— Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 6 Dec. 2021 -
The old guard have a force that may be just as powerful: inertia.
— The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018 -
The last thing that parents have to battle is their own inertia.
— Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 31 Aug. 2020 -
And yet, your letter has a whiff of helpless inertia about it.
— Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 30 July 2020 -
Just like the carnival ride, the water is pressed up against the bucket in a fight with inertia.
— Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2013 -
Reels have what is known as start-up inertia or how easily the drag will kick in.
— Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 10 Apr. 2023 -
All the inertia that has hit reigning champions in the past.
— SI.com, 27 June 2018 -
That process can go over a month, so there’s a good amount of time to capitalize on the inertia of the market.
— Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 11 Sep. 2020 -
Have the protests created enough inertia to ensure that the right thing is done?
— Corbett Smith, Dallas News, 11 June 2020 -
Part of the work of the next few decades is to imagine and build a better future rather than letting inertia reign.
— David Biello, New York Times, 24 May 2017 -
As creatures of habit, humans get entrenched in ways that gain inertia over time.
— Will Daniel, Fortune, 9 July 2024
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