How to Use inorganic in a Sentence

inorganic

adjective
  • These kinds of films without stars don’t have great inorganic pull.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 6 June 2019
  • The air was thick with smoke and the stench of burning inorganic materials.
    New York Times, 7 Aug. 2021
  • And it’s the first inorganic blue pigment discovered in more than 200 years.
    Mark Thiessen, National Geographic, 8 Dec. 2020
  • These creepy crawlers breath out CO2 – returning some inorganic carbon to the atmosphere – and use the rest to move around, make babies, and all of that.
    Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
  • His measurements showed that less than half of the mercury in the cats’ brain samples occurred as methylmercury; the rest was inorganic.
    Joshua Sokoloski, Science | AAAS, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Others argued that the use of Biggie’s voice sounded inorganic — that certain lyrics seemed strange in the artist’s voice.
    Julian Mark, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
  • There’s always more to do that will be organic and or inorganic.
    Bylila MacLellan, Fortune, 2 June 2023
  • The soil is then screened for inorganic material and placed into a cube to rest and cool for another 30 days.
    Kira Mautone, Fox News, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Quantum dots are tiny inorganic particles that glow a range of colors from red to blue when exposed to light.
    David Keyton, Christina Larson and Rodrique Ngowi The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Lampe-Onnerud, 53, has a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry and is a native of Sweden.
    David Holahan, courant.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Although for me, questions of habit, the inorganic nature of driving and social pressure rise before the innate chaos and evil of the human soul.
    Ron Lieber, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Replace bark mulch with very fine compost if inorganic mulching is not an option.
    oregonlive, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Light and dark, life and death, hot and cold, arid and lush, organic and inorganic, masculine and feminine.
    Nick Clement, Variety, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Worse, when the stains finally were tested in 2008 - part of a last ditch appeal by Henning and Birch - the result showed they weren’t made by blood at all, but some inorganic substance.
    Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 23 July 2019
  • Neither the show nor the actors seem comfortable with this cute, inorganic story line.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Since then, Knife River has grown through both organic and inorganic routes.
    Joe Cornell, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
  • These inorganic compounds are not absorbed into the body, and sit on the skin reflecting or absorbing the sun’s harmful rays.
    Aaron E. Carroll, New York Times, 10 June 2019
  • Instead, their method relies on direct cross-linking of the inorganic HSQ.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 July 2023
  • Dams built for these projects slow down water flow and allow natural inorganic mercury to settle on the bottom of riverbeds.
    Jill Langlois, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Roche has been looking at inorganic growth to bolster its pipeline.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • There are two basic kinds of mulch: organic and inorganic.
    The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 26 May 2020
  • The other cause is inorganic particles hovering in the water column — silt and dirt kicked up by car traffic around the Tahoe basin and erosion that wash into the lake.
    Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 July 2021
  • Arsenic is a natural element found in soil, water and air, with the inorganic form being the most toxic.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The usage of stock footage is expected in a documentary like this, but the choice of clips feels inorganic with Beemer’s overarching style.
    Kimber Myers, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Picking Mulch for Your Garden There are two basic kinds of mulch: organic and inorganic.
    The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 26 June 2018
  • In the face of such stiff competition, inorganic growth channels become important to the likes of Netflix.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 11 July 2019
  • About 81 percent of the mucus contained inorganic sediments, the study found.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Instead, use inorganic mulches like gravel or small rocks.
    oregonlive, 28 June 2021
  • That number lines up with measurements taken of bricks and other inorganic objects measured at the time.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2018
  • For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
    SI.com, 17 July 2019

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