INANIMATE in a Sentence
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16 example sentences for INANIMATE, such as:
1. He thought of the baby almost as an inanimate object.
2. Noirtier's eye still retained its inanimate expression.
3. She was asked to identify the still and inanimate body.
4. I'll sit here and drink, for I look upon you as so many pawns, as inanimate pawns.
5. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate.
2. Noirtier's eye still retained its inanimate expression.
3. She was asked to identify the still and inanimate body.
4. I'll sit here and drink, for I look upon you as so many pawns, as inanimate pawns.
5. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate.
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Meanings and Examples of INANIMATE
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inanimate
a. lifeless; not animated or energetic; dull
Classic Sentence:
1 But I liked his physiognomy even less than before: it struck me as being at the same time unsettled and inanimate.
2 The inanimate objects were not changed; but the living things had altered past recognition.
3 He exerted preterhuman self-denial in abstaining from finishing him completely; but getting out of breath, he finally desisted, and dragged the apparently inanimate body on to the settle.
4 I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.
5 When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations.
6 But again when I reflected that they had spurned and deserted me, anger returned, a rage of anger, and unable to injure anything human, I turned my fury towards inanimate objects.
7 The young man raised the arm, which fell back by its own weight, perfectly inanimate and helpless.
8 Noirtier's eye still retained its inanimate expression.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort.
Context Highlight In Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort.
9 She had none of Fanny's delicacy of taste, of mind, of feeling; she saw Nature, inanimate Nature, with little observation; her attention was all for men and women, her talents for the light and lively.
10 He had once before felt in his own person this overpowering of the fervid by the inanimate; but then it had tended to enervate a passion far sweeter than that which at present pervaded him.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 3 Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 3 Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning
11 In fact, compared with these types, the virtuous of other races seem lifeless, as does an inanimate volume when compared with the living word.
12 I'll sit here and drink, for I look upon you as so many pawns, as inanimate pawns.
13 It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate.
14 This rule of silence had had this effect, that throughout the whole convent, speech had been withdrawn from human creatures, and bestowed on inanimate objects.
Example Sentence:
1 She was asked to identify the still and inanimate body.
2 He thought of the baby almost as an inanimate object.