inactive
adjective
not active.
inactively
-
a word derived from
inactive.
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
Buol, upon this, yielded and remained, but, during the fearful battle that ensued, remained in the post-house on the Brenner, inactively watching the conflict, which terminated in the triumph of the peasantry.
From Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 by Mrs. George Horrocks
In the one case the faculties appealed to are actively occupied with the subject presented; in the other they are inactively occupied with it, and the attention is continually drawn away by more attractive thoughts.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer
The result was, that when the cavalry had discharged their carbines, and were still far off, we occasionally stood face to face, looking at each other inactively, not knowing what the next move might be.
From Reminiscences of Captain Gronow by R. H. (Rees Howell) Gronow
