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

They therefore remained in their quarters, inactively hoping, as men are wont to do, and keeping alive the remembrance of their lost lord by their lamentations.

From Undine by Bunnett, Fanny Elizabeth

However, he was not the boy to face a calamity inactively.

From Andy the Acrobat by Harkness, Peter T.

We’ll have to sit inactively from this moment on.

From The Mind Master by Burks, Arthur J.