Example Sentences

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Of course it’s better to not salt the earth; of course we still try to make use of the tools and even the systems that have inanimately played their part in human tragedy.

From The Verge • Feb. 20, 2018

About noon the lady came in, with six shop clerks after her, bearing packages, tossed off her head-dress, and flung herself inanimately on the sofa.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

It is life, not inanimately resting, but suspended from motion as we see it in the old Greek art.

From Old Kensington by Thackeray, Miss

Mom asked, referring to the new clump of hair slumped inanimately over the edge of the box.

From Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer by Isaacson, Lauren Ann