Inert
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For hours she remained tranquil and
inert
, absorbed in her despair; then she was at times seized with attacks of weeping, shrieking and delirium.
More example sentences with word inert
Recently, researchers from Penn State University have started looking at the pesticide residue in the loads of pollen that bees carry home as food, and they've found that every batch of pollen that a honeybee collects has at least six detectable pesticides in it, and this includes every class of insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, and even
inert
and unlabeled ingredients that are part of the pesticide formulation that can be more toxic than the active ingredient.
Economists often assume that markets are inert, that they do not touch or taint the goods they exchange.
More and more of the
inert
matter of the globe is being touched and animated by life.
A chromosome, by the way, is just a piece of
inert
chemical material.
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