How to Use inorganic in a Sentence

inorganic

adjective
  • These kinds of films without stars don’t have great inorganic pull.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 6 June 2019
  • How much ends up in inorganic produce varies.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 23 Nov. 2025
  • There is something inorganic about being in front of a green screen.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 15 May 2026
  • Replace bark mulch with very fine compost if inorganic mulching is not an option.
    — oregonlive, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Organic mulch will need to be replaced a lot faster than inorganic mulch.
    — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 14 June 2026
  • There was some back and forth over whether the inorganic compound would qualify.
    — Alina Hartounian, NPR, 23 Jan. 2025
  • There’s always more to do that will be organic and or inorganic.
    — Bylila MacLellan, Fortune, 2 June 2023
  • Roche has been looking at inorganic growth to bolster its pipeline.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Most of the late ’90s cross-genre shows came off as overcrowded or inorganic.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The air was thick with smoke and the stench of burning inorganic materials.
    — New York Times, 7 Aug. 2021
  • Quantum dots are tiny inorganic particles that glow a range of colors from red to blue when exposed to light.
    — David Keyton, Christina Larson and Rodrique Ngowi The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2023
  • If mulch layers are piled up too deeply or an inorganic mulch, like black plastic, is used, water may never reach the soil.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026
  • If mulch layers are piled up too deeply or an inorganic mulch, like black plastic, is used, water may never reach the soil.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Both organic and inorganic fungicides can be used to treat powdery mildew.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 25 May 2026
  • Both organic and inorganic fungicides can be used to treat powdery mildew.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Lead chromate, also known as chrome yellow, is an inorganic compound used as a pigment.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 30 July 2024
  • Organic and inorganic foods differ in how they’re produced or grown.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Neither the show nor the actors seem comfortable with this cute, inorganic story line.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Decades later, testing during the appeal process showed the stains weren’t made by blood, but some inorganic substance.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2024
  • Decades later, testing during the appeal process showed the stains weren’t made by blood, but some inorganic substance.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 20 Mar. 2025
  • To improve certain types of soil, inorganic amendments are sometimes used.
    — oregonlive, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Decades later, testing during the appeal process showed the stains weren’t made by blood, but some inorganic substance.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 27 Mar. 2026
  • His measurements showed that less than half of the mercury in the cats’ brain samples occurred as methylmercury; the rest was inorganic.
    — Joshua Sokoloski, Science | AAAS, 24 Mar. 2020
  • There are several forms of arsenic in rice, both organic and inorganic.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Since then, Knife River has grown through both organic and inorganic routes.
    — Joe Cornell, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Landscape cloth, black plastic, rocks, or shredded rubber are inorganic mulches.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Light and dark, life and death, hot and cold, arid and lush, organic and inorganic, masculine and feminine.
    — Nick Clement, Variety, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Employees and customers exchange many words, but none of them bring out emotions – these are inorganic exchanges.
    — Blake Simons, Variety, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Dams built for these projects slow down water flow and allow natural inorganic mercury to settle on the bottom of riverbeds.
    — Jill Langlois, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Replace wood mulch with a fireproof alternative like rocks or very fine compost if inorganic mulching is not an option.
    — Jeastman, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023

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