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76 examples of Inert in a sentence

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.
The exciting phase came when we took this piece of inert chemical and put it in the bacteria, and the bacteria started to read this genetic code, made the viral particles.
So, if you were to fly straight up too quickly, the inert gas in your body would rapidly expand the way soda fizzes up when shaken.
How does the Sun reach out across empty inert space and exert influence?
While TiO2 is safe and inert, it's really inefficient if you keep drinking the catalyst, because then you have to continue to replenish it, even after a few uses.
I work with more or less inert matter.
The acute triangle portion, with all angles less than 90 degrees, is inert.
That’s 7 cuts, and it renders the blob completely inert.
He uses tiny bottles, the glass is tinted, he tops the olive oil off with an inert gas.
Helium's a gas; there're a lot of reasons why helium's good, it's a tiny molecule, it's inert, it doesn't give you narcosis.
What the essence of that is, is that we're taking the sand at our feet, the inert silicon at our feet, and we're breathing a level of complexity into it that rivals that of life itself, and may even surpass it.
All of this effort results in an inert object.
One of our collaborators is chemist Martin Hanczyc, and he's really interested in the transition from inert to living matter.
And this is really bad news because plastic is not an inert substance.
This is one dreary, inert, self-important bore.
It's very inert.
The main problem is that the movie is so unbelievably inert.
Some of the actors are quirky enough to liven things up - especially the love interest, brought to you by none other than Mr. Keanu Reeves, warming up for Ted; heroine Olivia D'Abo's hateful alkie dad and big-hair stepsister are more interesting than the sickly mom or her utterly inert bitch-nemeses/teammates, one of whom appears to be made of porcelain.
It should be a heady mix, but instead it's rather dry-eyed and inert.
This is a very bland and inert production of one of Shakespeare's most vibrant plays.
I can hardly believe that this inert, turgid and badly staged film is by a filmmaker whose other works I've quite enjoyed.
One of the few disappointments was the EWS 39 jammer pod, in this case an inert Rb 75 (Maverick) missile painted black with the letters "EWS 39" in white along the side.
You will mourn the two hours of your life you sacrificed on the altar of this inert flick.
But if you like your allegories inert, obvious and oh-so-serious, this might be for you.
To say this movie is inert is much too great an understatement.
Glossy costume drama that is inert for two thirds of the movie.
Gorgeously-crafted, but otherwise inert and aloof rendering of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning book about a love triangle in New York, circa 1870.
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