How to Use inert in a Sentence

inert

adjective
  • How does he propose to stimulate the inert economy and create jobs?
  • These are inert and do not react with the wine.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2025
  • These are inert and do not react with the wine.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 28 Apr. 2026
  • These are inert and do not react with the wine.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 25 June 2026
  • Pure gold is inert in Earth's mantle and tends to stay there.
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Pure gold is inert in Earth’s mantle and tends to stay there.
    — David Bressan, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
  • In the wrong hands, such a story would become inert on-screen.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 12 June 2025
  • Unlike her plays, which were mannered, inert, and a big fat drag.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 7 Feb. 2017
  • Unlike her plays, which were mannered, inert, and a big fat drag.
    — Lili Anolik, VanityFair.com, 19 June 2017
  • At times, though, that sound has edged toward the inert and the bloodless.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • But these days, the windmills loom like scarecrows, idle and inert.
    — Javier C. HernÁndez, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2017
  • Bomb techs were able to determine that the item was inert and not live, hence not a threat.
    — cleveland, 19 June 2020
  • They are made of inert material and will not rot or stick to the frame.
    — Lee Roop, AL.com, 14 July 2017
  • The result is a work that is at once boundless in scope and dully inert.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • But yeah, a lot of our data is from inert explosives, as well.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2024
  • Instead, one of the best ways to practice is by using inert cans of bear spray.
    — Cameron Evans, Outdoor Life, 6 July 2023
  • And yet, the movie would be inert without a strong supporting cast.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 13 June 2022
  • The writer has to take all of that inert data and turn it into drama.
    — David Martindale, star-telegram.com, 24 May 2017
  • On the plane back to the US, Gita felt inert.
    — Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
  • But the assumption that Mars is inert is starting to look dead wrong.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Feb. 2021
  • Most of the controls and displays built into the steering yoke are inert.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The bombs are inert but do contain small pyrotechnic charges and should not be approached.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 2 July 2019
  • But the ballet is less directly about that, and, in the end, sadly inert.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • There’s not a spot of inert space in Chicago, which also got better loans.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 15 Aug. 2020
  • The public sector across the world can often seem bloated and inert.
    — Adrian Wooldridge, Twin Cities, 6 Dec. 2025
  • This has forced the plant to shut down its reactors to safer, although not fully inert, states.
    — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The code, though, is now inert, and the AI won’t ever let it be performed.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • These shark eye lenses are formed of an inert crystal-like protein, which is first formed while the shark is still in its egg.
    — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2016
  • In recent years, though, there’s been pushback against the view that cartilage is just an inert lump.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Gold, which is inert and safe for biological systems, is at the heart of this method.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025

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