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Example sentences for: inanimate

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

--that, in the end, owes more to metaphysics (divining the essential natures of things as inanimate as software programs) than to reason.
The time has come, as it does to all entities, animate and inanimate, to say goodby.
They were animists who revered the spirits they believed to be in the living things and inanimate objects around them.
Still life--the portrayal of familiar inanimate objects--is, as the name suggests, a paradoxical genre.
As the American philosopher Quentin Smith has pointed out, "If God created the universe with the aim of making it animate, it is illogical that he would have created as its first state something whose natural evolution would lead with high probability only to inanimate states ." The only way God could have ensured the appearance of creatures in his own image was by repeatedly intervening and making adjustments to steer the evolution of the world away from lifeless disaster.