inert

In a sentence

Six example sentences with inert, each labelled with its topic.

• The probe landed and then sat inert on the dust for six days until sunlight reached its panels.

  Science

• Every guard in the corridor stood inert until I stepped on the pressure plate near the vault.

  Gaming

• After the marathon my legs lay inert on the hotel bed, refusing every instruction I gave them.

  Fitness

• The defense stood inert as the guard walked to the rim, nobody rotating and nobody even raising a hand.

  Basketball

• The robot arm sat inert on the factory floor for a week while engineers waited for a replacement controller board.

  Technology

• The sculptor wanted the bronze figure to look inert, a heavy mass that no wind or hand could ever shift.

  Art

Found in these word lists

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