How to use inanimate in a sentence

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• Nouns can be singular or plural, and one of two genders, animate or inanimate.From the entry animate
• This is the complex aggregate of animate and inanimate single-organismic and multi-organismic entities and systems.From the entry multi-organismic
• You have even less sense than an inanimate object.From the entry less
• On a hot summer's day, one can literally see heatwaves shimmering off the surfaces of inanimate objects.2021, Murray du Plessis, Modern Meditations: 101 Ways to Slow Down & Connect to Spirit. From the entry heatwave
• I made a few casts, then arranged my inanimate subjects and took photos.2014, Michael Gorman, Effective Stillwater Fly Fishing, page 87. From the entry strike
• Perhaps in reaction to Lola's lack of sensitivity, Wendy became hyper-empathetic, even to inanimate objects.2011, Julie Salamon, Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein, unnumbered page. From the entry hyperempathetic
• The other powers of demarchic councils would stem from their command over resources, human or inanimate.1993, W. Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell, Towards a New Socialism, page 168. From the entry demarchic
• They are buried under a plethora of symbols and rendered inanimate by severe and rigid stylization.1979, Burr Cartwright Brundage, “The Quality of the Numinous”, in The Fifth Sun: Aztec Gods, Aztec World (Texas Pan American Series), 1st…. From the entry familial
• There was one abiogenesis when something happened to turn inanimate matter into animate cells.1971, Cyril C. Means, Jr., Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates [...], volume 117, part 23, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government…. From the entry abiogenesis
• The two cornucopiae carried by the figure likely identify her as Isis, but they also make clear her inanimate status.2021, Stephanie Pearson, “[The Lure of Egyptian Treasures] Egyptian Gods as Lamp Stands”, in The Triumph and Trade of Egyptian Objects in…. From the entry cornucopia
• An inanimate transitive subject can be made to conform to the restriction by adding a delineator to it.2018, András Bárány, Person, Case, and Agreement, page 135. From the entry delineator
• Without him, she's like an inanimate being—only half a person.2015 February 20, Roberto Saviano, “The Complex Role of Women in the Italian Mob”, in VICE, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2024. From the entry mob wife
• As Abbey notes, in denouncing terrorism but defending ecotage, ‘sabotage is violence against inanimate objects: machinery and property.2013, Elizabeth Bomberg, David Schlosberg, editors, Environmentalism in the United States: Changing Conceptions of Activism, Routledge…. From the entry ecotage
• In French, nouns are male or female, but in Cree, nouns are living or non-living, animate or inanimate.2012, Naomi McIlwraith, Kiyâm: Poems, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry male
• Light is absorbed in water by four components: water itself, dissolved yellow substances (gelbstoff), phytoplankton, and tripton (inanimate particulate material).1996, Steven W. Effler, Mary Gail Perkins, “Optics”, in Steven W. Effler, editor, Limnological and Engineering Analysis of a Polluted…. From the entry gelbstoff
• The question at once arises whether medieval thinkers really believed that what we now call inanimate objects were sentient and purposive.1964, C. S. Lewis, chapter 5, in The Discarded Image, Cambridge University Press, page 93. From the entry purposive
• Every object, animate or inanimate, every idea, abstract or concrete, became endowed with a spirit of its own.1910, Samuel Fallows, Andrew Constantinides Zenos, Herbert Lockwood Willett, The Popular and Critical Bible Encyclopædia and Scriptural…. From the entry pandemonism
• Hence the frequency and beauty of the prosopopoeia in poetry, where trees, mountains, and streams are personified, and the inanimate parts of nature acquire sentiment and passion.2013, Graham Harvey, Animism: Respecting the Living World, page 4. From the entry prosopopoeia

Meaning of inanimate

1. adjective Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
2. adjective Not alive, and never having been alive, especially not like humans and animals.
3. adjective Not animate.

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How do you use inanimate in a sentence?

Inanimate is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “Nouns can be singular or plural, and one of two genders, animate or inanimate.”

What is a short sentence with inanimate?

“You have even less sense than an inanimate object.”

What does inanimate mean?

Inanimate means lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.