Example Sentences

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The whole face was pretty much the same, only thinner perhaps, and with a look of apathy, of inanimation, that was foreign to my recollection of it.

From Grey Roses by Harland, Henry

After death, inanimation; only the inanimate is changeless.

From The Grey Cloak by Peirce, Thomas Mitchell

Men such as you and he, who cannot even lie with your eyelids, who will not condescend to cover up a secret by a moment of feigned inanimation, have many voices.

From The Duke's Children by Trollope, Anthony

Rest had turned to inanimation, quiet to dulness, peace to stagnation.

From Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes by Goodwin, Maud Wilder

On Sunday the elections began with absolute inanimation.

From Cæsar or Nothing by How, Louis