Example sentences for: inertia

How can you use “inertia” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the version of that argument given in What It Means , he asserts that "most government interventions are ineffectual" because "modern society has the inertia of a ponderous freight train."

  • In that sense, the fact that Planet Hollywood won't just die testifies to two things: the continued strength of inertia in American business and the continued distance between the interests of corporate managers and corporate shareholders.

  • In a few weeks those of us who overcome inertia and apathy will enter polling places to choose our president, with less real choice than ever.

  • When you tried to help herGet out of the car or get from the car to the doorOr across the apartment house hall to the elevatorThere was a new sense of heavinessOr of inertia in the body.

  • A third offered a reason why people stay together: "Isn't it possible that a lot of long-lasting marriages are long-lasting because of inertia created by the absence of alternatives to that arrangement?"


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