Example Sentences

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The committee recommended expanding the program to “all but the most inactively traded” stocks, ETFs and related derivatives.

From BusinessWeek • Feb. 19, 2011

We're not abandoning the shuttle, but we're not going to wait inactively either.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, tired of standing, and undesirous of spending the whole morning inactively, he turned and looked around him, up the rocky height of the temple-crowned acropolis.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Potter, Margaret Horton

If we loitered inactively at Ems, we certainly suffered no grass to grow under our feet now.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James

Two thirds of his time were spent in efforts to raise money to meet his payments, and the other third in brooding sadly and inactively over the embarrassed condition of his affairs.

From Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)